I dunno. RBG's gotta be pretty old. Remember she was doing those movies way back during the depression:
No freakin' way is that harridan retiring until she can be replaced by a lib. I don't buy it. This is a floating balloon to make the libs think if they shoot their wad on O'Connor they'll have lost the SCOTUS for good and conservatives think they still have a shot if the Prez appoints a squishy moderate.
There is no way that fans of original intent are going to be happy with mushy sorta-right wing appointees. Not gonna happen. We won't get fooled again.
Yeah, that's right, Rove, I'm on to you. 8^)
You're absolutely right. The dems would try to find a look-a-like before they let Ginsburg retire at least until '08 is decided.
"harridan" - LOL!
I have always thought of her as a shrew or crone, but harridan works ju-u-u-ust fine.
I thought her liver was conking out a few years back. Seems that was the scuttlebut in the 2000 cycle. Oh well, she's just skin, bones and hate now so I don't suppose she'll fatten up before she buys the farm. Being thin and small will be a plus in hell - she'll handle the heat better.
Well, if she's as sick as is indicated, she may not be the one making that decision.
The American Spectator is not going to the float a trial balloon to help Bush get off easy!
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment for her colon cancer. Her sigmoid colon was removed on September 11, 1999 for what had been classified as stage-2 cancer. About 75% of stage-2 colon cancer patients are cured. The treatments began in October, 1999 and ended in June of 2000.
Justice Ginsburg who is 69 years of age had been taken ill while teaching this summer on the island of Crete. Her ailment was originally misdiagnosed as acute diverticulitis. This type of misdiagnosis happens fairly often because extensive testing is required to enable the medical professionals to distinguish between the two ailments.
Other justices who have been treated for cancer are John Paul Stevens, 85; Sandra Day O'Connor, 75, William H. Rehnquist
John Paul Stevens, who had prostate cancer, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was treated for colon cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, whose recent bout of thyroid cancer
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Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is a United States jurist. Since 1993, she has served as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, New York, the second daughter of Nathan and Celia Bader. Ginsburg's older sister died when she was very young; the neighborhood where she grew up was made up of working-class immigrants, most of them Jewish, Italian, and Irish.
Ginsburg's mother called her "Kiki" and took an active role in Ruth's education, taking her to the library often and applying for scholarships that would allow her to attend college. Celia struggled with cancer throughout Ruth's high school years and died the day before graduation, forcing Ginsburg to withdraw from giving the salutatorian speech she had planned for months. In school, classmates recalled Ginsburg as highly popular and competitive; she joined the twirling squad in high school.
She married Martin D. Ginsburg, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1954, attended Harvard Law School, and when her husband accepted a job in New York City, she tranferred to Columbia Law School, where she received her LL.B. degree. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959-1961. From 1961-1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963-1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972-1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford University, California from 1977-1978.
In 1971, Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973-1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974-1980. In this position, Ginsburg successfully argued several women's rights cases before the Supreme Court, including 1973's Frontiero v. Richardson.
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Cancer has had a profound impact on Ginsburg's life. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cervical cancer the night before young Ruth was to graduate from high school in 1948. Then, a few years after she married Martin Ginsburg in 1954 and while he was still in law school, her husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Martin Ginsburg recovered and is a prominent tax lawyer and law professor. They have a grown son and daughter.
I dunno. RBG's gotta be pretty old. Remember she was doing those movies way back during the depression:
....No freakin' way is that harridan retiring until she can be replaced by a lib.....
She might of course involuntarily die from the serious illness negating the need to retire.