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What RBG Said in 2016 About Filling a SCOTUS Vacancy During an Election Year
Town Hall ^ | 9/21/2020 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 09/21/2020 8:36:55 AM PDT by Zenyatta

The left has pounced on late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “fervent wish” that her seat isn’t filled until after the election as though it’s law that must be followed. But what they seem to have forgotten is what she said in 2016 about filling a vacancy during an election year.

When the Republican-controlled Senate blocked former President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s seat, Ginsburg instructed them to proceed with reviewing the nomination.

“That’s their job,” she told The New York Times in an interview. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”

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TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; rbg; scotus

1 posted on 09/21/2020 8:36:55 AM PDT by Zenyatta
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To: Zenyatta

If she had played her cards right she should’ve stepped down during the Obama reign after her bout with ill health.


2 posted on 09/21/2020 8:39:58 AM PDT by JerryWest_44
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To: Zenyatta

She’s still voting too.

https://babylonbee.com/news/half-human-half-robot-justice-enters-supreme-court-introduces-self-as-ruth-bader-gins-borg


3 posted on 09/21/2020 8:40:01 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: JerryWest_44

Too self-centered and arrogant. Like all liberals.


4 posted on 09/21/2020 8:40:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Zenyatta

As Nelson from The Simpsons said,

HA HA !!


5 posted on 09/21/2020 8:42:16 AM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: Zenyatta

Bookmark


6 posted on 09/21/2020 8:44:17 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( Deplorable, and proud of it.)
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To: Zenyatta

Sorry to inform you, dead Ruthie, elections have consequences. Judicial appointments are, at their core, political. When Merrick was named by Obama during a presidential election year, he would be sitting on the SC now had he had a Dem senate. He didn’t. He loses. Simple as that. The Republicans today control both the Presidency and the Senate and thus they win. Dems would do it too. They even go a step further in threatening to pack the court as their backup legislature when they return to power. We are all adults in the room. So, spare us the theatrical false political outrage about hypocritical Republicans. Insincerity and disingenuousness is oftentimes the primary language of politics creating the obfuscatory cloud of dust necessary to advance your party’s political ball forward Both sides do it, Dems more so than the Republicans.It is what it is whether we like it or not. Oh, by the way, dead Ruthie did I mention that you sucked as a judge.


7 posted on 09/21/2020 8:53:40 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Seruzawa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/09/24/ruth-bader-ginsburg-obama-couldnt-appoint-an-acceptable-replacement-for-me/


8 posted on 09/21/2020 8:56:16 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: Zenyatta

It’s funny.

The crocodile McConnell had to see this coming.

He gets to hoist them on their own petard. What fun.


9 posted on 09/21/2020 9:15:18 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Zenyatta

Of course, she might have been referencing the South African Constitution.


10 posted on 09/21/2020 9:32:24 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Zenyatta

11 posted on 09/21/2020 10:46:15 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: Zenyatta

I don’t care what she said, she did not own her seat like royality on a throne.


12 posted on 09/22/2020 1:26:59 AM PDT by snarkytart
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