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There is nothing inherently inconsistent with the Senate blocking Merrick Garland in 2016 but confirming Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. But let’s make sure we’re using the right reasons in our arguments. The Constitution is clear: the President has sole power to nominate Supreme Court justices, and a President’s power continues not only until Election Day, but all the way until noon on January 20th—Inauguration Day. So, President Trump is not crossing Constitutional lines by nominating a replacement for Justice Ginsburg a mere 38 days before Election Day. Neither was it Constitutionally wrong for President Obama to nominate a Supreme...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett Good choice? Bad Choice? Controversial? Odds of getting a Senate vote before 3 November?

Hundreds of people gathered Friday night outside the Supreme Court, singing in a candlelight vigil and weeping together as they mourned the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The large group of mourners packed the high court’s steps and the street across from the U.S. Capitol in a nighttime memorial. Dozens of people sat on the steps quietly reflecting on Ginsburg’s legacy. Scores of memorial candles flickered in the wind along the front steps of the court as people knelt to leave bouquets of flowers, small American flags and handwritten condolence messages for Ginsburg, who died Friday of metastatic pancreatic...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death didn’t just leave a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. It left a court evenly divided Supreme Court between four leftist justices and four strict constructionist justices. With his usual acumen and clarity, Ted Cruz explains why an evenly divided court is a recipe for a civil breakdown. We can all understand the reasonableness of having an uneven number of Supreme Court justices: It substantially diminishes the likelihood of a stalemate. However, Ginsburg’s death means that, as we head into the most contentious election process in American history, the Court has eight justices. Worse, the justices...

Senator “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell wasted no time in sending the left into a complete furor, by announcing at the tail-end of his tribute to Justice Ginsburg, that he would be bringing a Trump-nominee for the court to a floor vote. In a tweet sent out hours after the passing of the Notorious RBG, McConnell announced his intentions: “In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has...

News broke about two hours ago that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. My RedState colleagues jumped into the fray with both the details and some preliminary, political implications of the SCOTUS seat vacancy.SEE: Opinion: Now is NOT The Time For Republicans To CompromiseJustice Ginsburg’s Passing Ignites the October TimebombJustice Ginsburg Dead: All Election Calculations are Now Out the Window — Prospects for Chaos Now Almost CertainBreaking Down Mitch McConnell’s Majority — Where Will His 50 Votes Come From?Chuck Schumer Tweets About Replacing Ginsburg Before Offering Condolences TrendingOops: AOC Says Quiet Part out Loud About Joe Biden...

Republicans control the US Senate and the White House and could nominate and confirm a justice by election day on November 3rd. Already tonight Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer announced that the vacancy “should not be filled until we have a new president.” And already Senator Lisa Murkowski announced she would not vote for a SCOTUS nominee until after Election Day.

Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas recently sparred over Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, a case involving the disposition of fetal remains by abortion providers. The case addresses two provisions of an Indiana law. The first provision prohibits abortion providers from treating the bodies of aborted children as “infectious waste” and incinerating them alongside used needles and other potentially dangerous items. The second provision made it illegal for an abortion provider to perform an abortion in Indiana when the provider knows that the mother is seeking the abortion “solely because of the child’s race,...

The news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for pancreatic cancer raised the possibility of a Supreme Court opening within the next year. The 86-year-old Ginsburg's health has been declining for years, to where the last year has felt like a bad remake of the 1989 Weekend at Bernie's movie. Instead of enjoying her golden years in retirement, Ginsburg has been propped up and hidden in the hopes of holding the seat until a Democrat is elected. The always elegant Michael Moore, who previously placed a Ginsburg doll atop a Christmas tree, summed up the Democrat zeitgeist when he tweeted,...

We already know that the Left regards the United States Constitution as a noxious constraint on their dream of using the might of the state to compel obedience to their dogmas, however they may evolve.  The First and Second Amendments bother them a lot.  But when the Supreme Court is dominated by liberals who make up rights they like from the previously unknown penumbra of the "living" Constitution, that pesky document matters less. But the news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for a recurrence of pancreatic cancer has the Left in a tizzy.  Should President Trump...

First she praised him for becoming the first justice in history to hire an all-female team of law clerks. Then she warned the left to knock it off with their Court-packing fantasies. Now this.When exactly did Ruth Bader Ginsburg get red-pilled?Regardless, congratulations to her: She’s about to become the first justice ever to be deplatformed. Or the second, I should say. I suppose Merrick Garland was first. On Wednesday night, Ginsburg delivered a 30-minute speech looking back at the 2018 Supreme Court term and Stevens’s life, before participating in an hour-long question-and-answer session with Duke Law professor Neil Siegel,...

Officials with the U.S. Supreme Court have tried to downplay the fact that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed three days’ worth of oral arguments this week as related to her recent cancer surgery. “Her recovery from surgery is on track. Post-surgery evaluation indicates no evidence of remaining disease, and no further treatment is required,” said court spokesperson Kathy Arberg. While that statement can be taken a couple of different ways, The Hill is reporting that the Clinton-nominated justice will also be out next week, which will no doubt set off panic among Left-wing groups and congressional Democrats...

Still recovering from her recent lung surgery at home, Justice Ginsburg was unable to attend oral arguments this week for the first time in her career on the Supreme Court. As a result, Politico reports the White House is apparently telling allies to prepare themselves for the possibility she could retire. The White House “is taking the temperature on possible short-list candidates, reaching out to key stakeholders, and just making sure that people are informed on the process,” said a source familiar with those conversations, who spoke on background given the delicate nature of the subject. “They’re doing it...

Chris Cillizza, who works for an organization that has turned itself into a resistance network, hailed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for going full political against President Donald Trump. This is part of the general idolatry of Ginsburg which peaks on Labor Day with the CNN Films paean to Ginsburg, RBG. Does anybody remember CNN's adulation of Justice Antonin Scalia? No? I thought not. Cillizza begins by painting a grim picture of the Trumpocalypse in which shell-shocked liberals have primarily one person around whom the snowflakes can rally in "How Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the face of the Trump resistance."

Have you noticed all the paeans of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the mainstream media in recent months including an awestruck look by Yahoo! at her planking exercises? The latest silly iteration of this trend is an overlong CNN.Com article by Rhonda Garelick about her robe collars. Not only are they analyzed in great detail as fashion but also as to the deeper political meanings of her collars.  Every time you think Garelick can't possibly write any more on the very narrow subject of Ginsburg's robe collars, she continues to go on and on and on and.....

On the heels of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement from the High Court, Yahoo! Lifestyle has suddenly focused on the planking exercises of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  They assure their readers with what could be described as desperate enthusiasm that Justice Ginsburg is in great physical shape in its June 28 article by Erin Donnelly, A photo of 85-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg planking is going viral after Justice Kennedy's SCOTUS retirement news:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview to CBS News’ Charlie Rose Tuesday in which she said sexism was a “major factor” in Hillary’s 2016 loss.Asked when she believes a woman will be president, Ginsburg replied, “Well, we came pretty close.” “You think sexism played a role in that campaign?” Charlie Rose asked. Ginsburg replied, “I have no doubt that it did.” At this point, the crowd breaks into applause. They aren’t applauding sexism, of course, they are applauding a Supreme Court Justice siding with Hillary Clinton and therefore implicitly criticizing President Trump. Asked if sexism was decisive in...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she would support changing the Electoral College. “There are some things I would like to change, one is the Electoral College,” she said late Monday at Stanford Law School in California, according to CNN. “But that would require a constitutional amendment, and amending our Constitution is powerfully hard to do,” she added. Ginsburg also lamented partisan divisions in Congress, which she said hurt the confirmation process for justices. “I wish there was a way I could wave a magic wand and put back when people were respectful of each other and the Congress...

A series of events that has been described as a “troubling turn” has been found to have taken place at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the justices’ looming decision on marriage – whether they will affirm the millennia old standard of one man and one woman or whether they will create a right to homosexual “marriage.” The circumstances concern efforts to have Ruth Ginsburg and Elena Kagan recused from the marriage case because they both have taken public advocacy positions for same-sex “marriage” by performing those ceremonies even while the case was pending before the justices. WND reported just days...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, having decided for some inexplicable reason to do a long interview with a fashion magazine (maybe it is her celebrated collection of lace collars), reaffirmed the most important things we know about her: her partisanship, her elevation of politics over law, and her desire to see as many poor children killed as is feasibly possible. Speaking about such modest restrictions on abortion as have been enacted over the past several years, Justice Ginsburg lamented that “the impact of all these restrictions is on poor women.” Then she added: “It makes no sense as a national policy...