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.
Byron White was appointed by JFK, so he retired during a Democrat administration. Which meant that White, a dissenter in Roe v. Wade, was replaced by a pro-abort.
David Souter was pro-abortion, and he was appointed by a Republican. But he deliberately resigned while a Democrat was in office, so he would be replaced by a pro-abort.
See how that works?