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Ginsburg acknowledges Trump will fill Supreme Court vacancy
Associated Press ^ | Nov 14, 2016 5:54 PM EST | Mark Sherman

Posted on 11/14/2016 5:23:11 PM PST by Olog-hai

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hoped for a different outcome in last week’s election, but she made plain Monday that she accepts that Donald Trump will fill the Supreme Court’s 9-month-old vacancy.

The 83-year-old justice said the most immediate impact on the court of Trump’s election would be to fill the seat that Justice Antonin Scalia occupied until his death in February. “President Trump will fill it,” Ginsburg said in a question-and-answer session at a meeting of the Jewish Federations of North America in a Washington ballroom.

Ginsburg had criticized Trump in interviews last summer with The Associated Press and other news organizations, saying she did not want to consider the possibility that Trump could be elected. She apologized for her remarks soon thereafter. …

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antoninscalia; ginsburg; rbg; ruthbuzziginsburg; scalia; scotus; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus; trumptransition; vacancy
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To: Olog-hai

21 posted on 11/14/2016 5:32:58 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Olog-hai

Whack a mole! ...


22 posted on 11/14/2016 5:33:11 PM PST by VRWC For Truth ( FU Klintoons)
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To: Olog-hai

Hes gonna fill yours too, ruthie.


23 posted on 11/14/2016 5:34:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: butlerweave

We just accomplished the route in reverse, that we have always feared.

We just changed this nation for the next 50 years.

When Trump and Pence leave office, the SCOTUS will be secured until 2075.

Federal judicial appointments just went from bleak to super freak!


24 posted on 11/14/2016 5:34:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

two vacancies... at least


25 posted on 11/14/2016 5:34:20 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against whites. Beware.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

yup. great first choice.

the real additional benefits will be on the circuit and appelate courts.

libs have overpacked them for decades.


26 posted on 11/14/2016 5:35:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: COBOL2Java
And she was great on "Laugh In" :0)

"Do you believe in the Hereafter?"

"Um hum"

"Then you know what I'm here after"

27 posted on 11/14/2016 5:36:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Guess what Ruth. He’s probably going to get to fill your seat too.

Too late, she probably fills it every day.

28 posted on 11/14/2016 5:37:35 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (the fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: Talisker

I agree. I think Trump is a lot more likely to appoint a true judicial conservative just to spite Ginsburg.


29 posted on 11/14/2016 5:39:55 PM PST by Reagan79 (Today, I consider myself the wisest Latina Woman on the face of the earth.)
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To: COBOL2Java
Here's the version my wife and I used at a Halloween Party ..


30 posted on 11/14/2016 5:39:56 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Trump might get FOUR appointments! replacing 1 conservative (scalia) 2 liberals (ginsberg, breyer) and 1 moderate (kennedy).

That might leave the court with 7 to 3 conservative majority !


31 posted on 11/14/2016 5:40:17 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Yulee
Liberal and Socialist minds will implode, if Judge Roy Moore is nominated.

As far as I'm concerned, that's the only criteria that matters in nominating judges.

32 posted on 11/14/2016 5:40:48 PM PST by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: Kozak

Trump says some bogosities* and everyone is taking him literally clutching her pearls, declaring him a sexist. Bader Ginsburg says that she’ll quit if Trump is elected, no one takes her literally. So all this time, she’s philosophizing, making decisions, writing opinions. Even if she steps down Jan. 20, it’s not soon enough. Where’s the outrage?


33 posted on 11/14/2016 5:41:42 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Olog-hai

Lemme see... what kind of pick would drive Ginsburg to retirement the fastest?


34 posted on 11/14/2016 5:42:48 PM PST by thoughtomator (This election is a referendum on the Rule of Law)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Judge Moore would be a perfect choice!


35 posted on 11/14/2016 5:42:53 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Olog-hai

I wish she would just die already


36 posted on 11/14/2016 5:43:20 PM PST by Wisconsinlady (What we tolerate today, our children will embrace tomorrow)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Bow to your sensei!!


37 posted on 11/14/2016 5:43:55 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Olog-hai

I want a rabid arch conservative appointed.


38 posted on 11/14/2016 5:47:46 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow, did they teach you that in law school (in my Marissa Tomei “My Cousin Vinny” voice)?


39 posted on 11/14/2016 5:51:22 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Too old.

I want strict pro-life, pro 2nd amendment jurists under the age of 50 with longevity in their genes.


40 posted on 11/14/2016 5:51:38 PM PST by proudpapa (Trump Pence 2016!!)
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