Posted on 11/14/2016 5:23:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hoped for a different outcome in last weeks election, but she made plain Monday that she accepts that Donald Trump will fill the Supreme Courts 9-month-old vacancy.
The 83-year-old justice said the most immediate impact on the court of Trumps 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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If she really cared about the direction of the Court, she should have retired 3 years ago when the Dems still controlled the Senate to allow Obama to add a third lefty nominee. Instead, she slept through 3 more years and now they are screwed for a generation. Typical Dem; all about themselves.
Judge Ginsburg’s on board? This is way too much winning. I’m getting tired of winning already!!!
They misspelled “vacancies”! ;)
Depends.
“I want a rabid arch conservative appointed.”
Who has his own Class III machine gun dealer’s license.
;^)
Vacant
(Antonin Scalia) 3/11/1936
Died 2/13/2016
Age: 79 yr 11 mo Ronald Reagan 9/26/1986
Served: 29 yr 4 mo
Anthony Kennedy 7/23/1936
Age: 80 yr 3 mo Ronald Reagan 2/18/1988
Served: 28 yr 8 mo
Clarence Thomas 6/23/1948
Age: 68 yr 4 mo George H. W. Bush 10/23/1991
Served: 25 yr 0 mo
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 3/15/1933
Age: 83 yr 7 mo Bill Clinton 8/19/1993
Served: 23 yr 2 mo
Stephen Breyer 8/15/1938
Age: 78 yr 2 mo Bill Clinton 8/3/1994
Served: 22 yr 3 mo
John G. Roberts 1/27/1955
Age: 61 yr 9 mo George W. Bush 9/29/2005
Served: 11 yr 1 mo
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. 4/1/1950
Age: 66 yr 7 mo George W. Bush 1/31/2006
Served: 10 yr 9 mo
Sonia Sotomayor 6/25/1954
Age: 62 yr 4 mo Barack Obama 8/8/2009
Served: 7 yr 3 mo
Elena Kagan 4/28/1960
Age: 56 yr 6 mo Barack Obama 8/7/2010
Served: 6 yr 3 mo
Hope DJT replaces her soon.
Call me crazy but should judges at least try to look impartial?
I hope you are right but I well remember some of the Republican Presidents picks that turned out to be just as liberal as the Dems picks. Remember Souter, Warren??
The goatess was good for something after all.
I won’t miss her when she’s gone and she can’t go away soon enough for me.
I could never understand why they wear the robes at the State of the Union.... they aren’t holding court.
Probably not 7-3, unless Congress adds a seat.
Isn’t it about time for Ruthie to head for the barn? She can’t even stay awake during pleadings.
I didn’t tag it as breaking news.
One per term...
A blessing that this old bat stayed on the court past the Obama years....she will be 84 next spring.
And now looking at 8 years of President Trump. She must be thrilled.
She’s 83 and sharp as a basketball.
Commonly called the nuclear option, that Harry Reid threatened to pass a few years ago when the Republicans wouldn't go along with his "compromise".
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