Posted on 11/23/2018 11:59:29 AM PST by Simon Green
Some offered to donate their ribs, others recommended cloaking her in bubble wrap.
The reactions following news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had fractured three ribs in a fall at her office on Nov. 7 may have been made in jest, but some no doubt were rooted in real worry.
At 85, Ginsburg is the oldest member of the Supreme Court, and this month’s health scare left many wondering if she’ll really serve for five more years as promised.
But she’s not the only one in recovery mode.
Washington is slowly recuperating from the bitter battle over Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Another vacancy on the bench would surely lead to an explosive fight with liberals trying in vain to prevent President Trump from turning the court into a conservative stronghold with a third nominee.
The repercussions of Trump appointees are why some on the left have criticized Ginsburg and 80-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer — another aging member of the court’s liberal wing — for not stepping down when former President Obama was in office.
“Given that she wants her vision of the law to prevail, it was a mistake to hang in there indefinitely,” said Daniel Epps, an associate professor of law at the Washington University School of Law. “If she stays for five more years from now, that’s 2023. Even if there’s a Democratic president elected in 2020, it’s quite possible that Republicans might control the Senate in 2023.”
Epps said that for now, the future of the court is riding on Ginsburg’s health.
“We shouldn’t be in this position where the future of certain policies turn on whether this old woman is healthy or not,” he said.
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IF she had any integrity, she would have retired years ago. Most likely, this often-sleeping-loser LIB’s staff do all the work...even writing her “opinions”. How pathetic and how wrong. I bet she would fail a basic orientation exam.
Roberts is a serious prolem being blackmailed.
Just his dumbass speaking out about Trump and not,Obama, and knowing what he kmows about separation of,powers and then from the bench rewriting legislation,
The ashole is blackmailed and too weak to step up and expose i and get out from under it.
My christmas wish for rbg, thats the card.
I keep forgetting (snx).
...and there have been reliable prophesies...
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Please explain (I hope you’re right)
No question.
Re: others recommended cloaking her in bubble wrap.
Liberals are so smart/s
Not unexpected to hear this at a time when lifetime appointments are poised to help conservatives.
“I’ll donate a grave plot.
Confession: I’ve been trying to sell it for some time now”
Is this the hole left when you removed your septic tank?
“And there you have it. The liberal mindset that judges and justices are there to make policy. Absolutely disgusting.”
Every. Single. One of them.
None of them know how government is supposed to work. They strive for an “American Idol” model. It’s the only thing they can understand.
Remember when we saw Jay-Z and Beyonce sitting in the situation room ? Jay-z’s body language told it all. for 8 years a tribal rule was in charge of the country and now that that’s gone the tribe is P!$$ED.
Only a civilized person understands law and order. Law isn’t about punishment, it’s about greasing productive wheels so that we come out on top. For more than half of the country (I was one when I was an angry young man) the idea of the people ruling the government doesn’t even click.
Even for many conservatives - like us around here. I hear it all the time “The 2nd amendment gives us the right to have guns” or “The 1st amendment gives us freedom of speech”. No, it doesn’t.
The constitution and it’s amendments don’t tell the people how to live - It tells the government what it can and can’t do. Not us. The founding fathers didn’t tell us what we had to do - just what we needed to do to make things happen.
Still after almost a 100 years no one understands that they themselves can become a delegate. They can be a member of the Electoral College. Just about everyone I meet (Except the actual electoral representative I met) thinks that it’s a secret cabal of freemasons that do this. It’s a mystery to them.
The Constitution does not tell us what we can and can’t do. It tells the Government what they can and can not do, and how they must do it if they are allowed.
So many people have lost sight of how in control we actually are.
1) Wait, I thought the Supreme Court’s future rested on Kavanaugh being seated.
2) What this tells you is that “they” know Roberts can be a squish vote, the new Kennedy and the next one puts it out of reach of a “Roberts Reacharound.”
Trump needs at least 2 more justices to make the Supreme Court Great Again.
‘Supreme Court’s future rides on God’s will...’
why would an entity that supposedly exists outside of earthly time and space give two figs about the US supreme court...?
“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness there of ; the world and they that dwell therein.”
And countless other Bible verses.
She didn’t break three Ribs. If she did, she would still be hospitalized.
Most likely she bruised them. I did in my mid 50’s and it hurt like hell for weeks. Either she is one tough old bird or the whole story is pure BS.
I doubt Roberts wants pictures of him engaging with gusto in queer sex to appear.
Well Jesus Christ in the flesh 2000 years ago busted that supposition to bits didn't he.
She’s dead Jim!
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