Posted on 03/20/2024 10:58:00 AM PDT by bitt
While the anger was a bit misplaced, one can easily understand why liberals were furious that the now-deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t step down before the 2014 midterm elections.
After all, the writing was on the wall. In the sixth year of Barack Obama in the White House, Americans had gotten fed up with the Democrats and the Senate was poised to change hands. If Republicans were to take control of the Senate, they would stall any nominee the then-president chose to fill a vacancy on the court.
Ginsburg was 81 at the time and had battled cancer. She was the liberal-appointed justice most likely to fall to tragedy, speaking in purely actuarial terms. In fact, she had made it to the age of 87 when she died in 2020.
That was when then-President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace her and she was confirmed by a GOP-controlled Senate.
The same can’t be said for Merrick Garland, of course. In 2016, he was the man Obama was nominated to the court after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of that year.
Given that the Republicans controlled the Senate, they were in no mood to confirm one of the administration’s justices, particularly in an election year, and then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to even give Garland a hearing. (Garland’s nakedly partisan contempt for the rule of law as attorney general of the United States under President Joe Biden has revealed this course of action to have been a wise one.)
However, the Democrats still have control of the White House and Senate. Whether that lasts is anyone’s guess; Trump leads Biden in the polls and outlook for the upper chamber isn’t superb for the Democrats even if they’re able to keep control of 1600 Pennsylvania.
That’s why generally lib-friendly writer Josh Barro — a politics and economics journo who tends to be very Biden-supportive on his Substack, even if he mostly remains nominally neutral — thinks it’s high time the Dems pressured Sonia Sotomayor to retire.
Wait, you might be saying — isn’t Sotomayor young, by the standards of the gerontocracy in Washington? At age 69, yes she is, even if she is (as Barro noted) “a diabetic who has in some instances traveled with a medic.” However, in a Substack post excerpted by lefty rag The Atlantic on Monday, Barro called out liberal “cowardice in speaking up about Sotomayor” and her age.
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Nonsense.
1)”Trump leads Biden in the polls.”
Yesterday and today the clickbaits for news sources say “Biden has narrow lead in most polls.”
2) The Dems are counting on assassinating Trump (God forbid) if the lawfare does not work out.
It was David Souter’s seat.
RBG stayed in power for no other reason then she was hungry—hungry for power.
A humble human being would have spent the last few years of her life with her loved ones, sharing her memories etc....
but not a power hungry ideologue like RBG — she had to retain power through her dying breathe.
Here’s the scenario. Sotomayor retires from SCOTUS. Biden appoints Harris. Biden nominates someone (Newsom?) as VP. Then Biden resigns in late Sept.
communists with eat their comrades barbequed with hot sauce if they think it will increase the power they have over the citizenry
That’s been my suspicion, at least the part about Harris to SCOTUS. It’s the only way the racists will let them displace her.
What? Get rid of the Wise Latina?
We owe Mitch for this one... Garland would have been the "Justice from Hell' if he had made it to the Supreme Court. Most evil man next to George Soros.
The Wise Latina isn’t going anywhere.
Revenge? Revenge is winning, as in having Trump replace Sotomeyor with a staunch originalist.
The only group that believes that without rodent voter fraud Trump will win BIGLY is the Freerepublic Surrender Monkey Caucus.
Que the Sad Trombone.
I wasn’t that impressed with Trump picks for the court, I am impressed with Gorsuch ONLY, Kavanaugh was NOT worth the utter battle we had to seat him not that impressed with Amy either she has been a HUGE disappointment!! I believe Trump got these names from the heritage foundation he NEEDS to turn to Mike Davis of Article 111 project!!! I am still doubtful that the 3 letter agencies will EVER let Trump back into the WH but we will see!!
Liberal Democrats don’t have loved ones especially if they are old and sick.
Yep. They don’t want another RBG situation.
“the Democrats still have control of the White House and Senate.”
They also have control of the House, and we pretend they don’t. But they do.
“Get rid of the Wise Latina?”
She’s already got one foot in the grave and her other on a banana peel.
They’ll whack her if she doesn’t retire before the election, just so PINO Joe appoints the next judge before Trump can. I expect she’s hired a food taster already.
“I wasn’t that impressed with Trump picks for the court”
Most don’t believe they were HIS picks.
“I believe Trump got these names from the heritage foundation”
I think he got them from McConnell.
“he NEEDS to turn to Mike Davis of Article 111 project!”
He needs to pick Mike Davis as either AG or SCOTUS.
Interesting how afraid they are of this.
I still think it behooves us to be well prepped for all hell breaking loose by Sept.
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