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Ruth Bader Ginsburg goes political: I can’t resign with this Senate
wash times ^ | 9/24/14 | c chumley

Posted on 09/24/2014 6:44:24 AM PDT by bestintxas

Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a hard look at the political landscape, saw a Senate that was looming as unfavorable to her leanings and summed up her fate: I can’t resign now — there’s nobody like me who could be confirmed, she said.

“Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have? If I resign any time this year, [Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court,” Ms. Ginsburg, 81, said in an Elle Magazine excerpt released on Tuesday. “Anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided.”

She also said that she’s completely able to “do the job full steam,” arguing that those who say her time to step down has come are wrong, Politico reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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As this country requires impartiality for its judges, this smacks of the type of thing that in normal cases is just cause for removal from the bench, doesn't it?

She sure sounds egotistical as well.

1 posted on 09/24/2014 6:44:24 AM PDT by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas
Cool!

This means President Cruz will get to nominate her replacement when she croaks!

2 posted on 09/24/2014 6:46:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: bestintxas

I understand - not nearly enough pedophile votes there now.


3 posted on 09/24/2014 6:47:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes!


4 posted on 09/24/2014 6:48:48 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: bestintxas

She’s quite critical of the Harry Reid run Senate, I see.


5 posted on 09/24/2014 6:49:05 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: bestintxas

Good for you Ruth Buzzi. Wait until we have a Republican president AND Senate.


6 posted on 09/24/2014 6:49:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: bestintxas

Ginsburg doesn’t like Harry Reid’s senate?

They must not have enough bat-crap crazy ultra-leftists to suit her.


7 posted on 09/24/2014 6:50:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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This means President Cruz will get to nominate her replacement when she croaks!

I want Cruz to be her replacement.

8 posted on 09/24/2014 6:51:42 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: bestintxas

Quite the opposite. She’s a confirmed liberal but she knows the difference between Rule of Law and Dogma. Her resigning would be our worst nightmare.


9 posted on 09/24/2014 6:51:53 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: bestintxas

The only info I want from her is the name of her doctor.
Dx’d with pancreatic cancer & still going strong.
What treatment & meds is she on??


10 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:08 AM PDT by FES0844 (lAID)
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To: bestintxas
“Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have?"

With Harry Reid having gone 'nuclear', it would be a breeze to appoint Van Jones, Louis Farrakhan, or Bill Ayers.

11 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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“Anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided.”

By "someone like me," of course you're referring to a jurist who makes decisions based on a political agenda, rather than the Constitution.

12 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:21 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
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“Anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided.”

HA! I wish that were (was?) true.

The discouraging fact is Ubama could nominate Beelzebub hisself and there would be enough Republicans who would go along with it lest they be called racist.

13 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:25 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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This is actually a major breach of Court decorum and protocol.

I mean, we all know that Justices like to time their retiring on the ability to see a like-minded replacement, but it was always unstated. This is the first time, to my knowlege, that one of the Justices has stated so explictly.

She’s actually undermining the integrity of the Court with this. Which was probably her intent. Reduce it, as Liberals have tried to do over the last generation, to just another political body.


14 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:48 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: bestintxas

Does she really think the filibuster option for Supreme Court nominees will stay in place if opportunity presents itself to the Dems?


15 posted on 09/24/2014 6:52:52 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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“I can’t resign with this Senate”

Great!

She’ll LOVE the one arriving in January!


16 posted on 09/24/2014 6:53:15 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: bestintxas

When ACLU Ruthie was nominated, the pubbies didn’t put up a fight. They didn’t like her politics, but felt she was qualified. The dems go nuclear on most pubbie nominees.


17 posted on 09/24/2014 6:54:10 AM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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She won’t resign while the Dems hold the Senate?


18 posted on 09/24/2014 6:54:36 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SoFloFreeper
Wait until we have a Republican president AND Senate.

In which case, we will no doubt STILL be stuck with Obamacare ("mended, not ended"), amnesty, grotesque deficits, crony capitalism and the highest taxes in the Western world.

That is, barring the election of Ted Cruz as president and conservative leadership in the House and Senate -- which I would dearly love to see, but which I doubt will happen short of a diving miracle.

19 posted on 09/24/2014 6:55:30 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: bestintxas
They can't get the dream team in.


20 posted on 09/24/2014 6:55:57 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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