Posted on 11/23/2018 2:14:51 PM PST by Kaslin
When it comes to the oldest justice currently serving on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the message has long since set in for liberals. Donald Trump is going to be in office for two or possibly six more years and for at least the next two, the GOP controls the Senate. How much longer will she remain on the bench? After her recent health scare (a fall resulting in some broken ribs), some alarmed Democrats are growing resentful that Ginsburg didn’t retire when Barack Obama was in office and she had the chance to give up her seat to a like-minded judge. At The Hill, Lydia Wheeler posts some observations from Washington University School of Law associate professor Daniel Epps. He sounds kind of angry.
“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.
Pardon me for saying it, but… Boo Hoo. In 2015 and 2016 there were plenty of people who were assuming that Hillary Clinton was going to be the next president and if Ginsberg was one of them I’ll just remind you that hindsight is 20/20. But that might not have even been a factor in her decision to continue working. Professor Epps is bitter now because he fears that Notorious RBG will fall ill to the point where she would have to step down or something even worse. But the woman has already beaten cancer twice and reportedly could run a half marathon if she needed to. Personally, I think she’ll be fine.
But no matter whether it’s retirement or health concerns, the decision remains between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and God. Epps is wringing his hands over “the future of certain policies” (spoiler alert: he’s talking about abortion) and describing it as hanging by a thread based on “whether this old woman is healthy or not.” Is it just me, or is that a pretty offensive thing to say about anyone, particularly a Supreme Court Justice?
If you want to change the system and put term limits on the Supreme Court, draft up an amendment and start circulating it around the country. But until that time, there’s no point debating the retirement age of the justices or harassing them over it. If Ginsburg wants to serve five or even ten more years, that’s up to her. Conversely, if she decides that enough is enough and steps down in January, that’s her prerogative as well. If you want to worry about “some old woman’s health” you should keep saying prayers for Betty White. Now there’s a national treasure.
“But the woman has already beaten cancer twice”
So is the third time the “charm?”
Sleeping in public, repeatedly.
It’s getting UNSEEMLY.
Come on, all these expectations are crushing her.
She’ll die in the seat before she retires and lets Trump replace her with an originalist.
Buzzie will be gone soon enough. Trump needs to get the next one right. Roberts is Kennedy’s replacement.
In other words just like PDJT said, an 'Obama judge.'
Retire or expire, doesn’t matter to me
She wasn’t recently in the hospital because of cancer. She was because she broke her rips when she fell.
I agree
How can Roberts be Kennedy’s replacement and besides Robert’s most of the time goes with his fellow Republican justices
“Democrats are growing resentful that Ginsburg didn’t retire when Barack Obama was in office and she had the chance to give up her seat to a like-minded judge.”
She was going to hand appointment of her seat off to the first woman president, which was to be Clinton. She figured wrong. Trump will get to make that appointment. Sucks to be you, RBG.
...some alarmed Democrats are growing resentful that Ginsburg didn’t retire when Barack Obama was in office and she had the chance to give up her seat to a like-minded judge.
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Quite a few political junkies like myself think “Democrats” engineered Scalia’s death. Why didn’t they knock ole Buzzard off while they were at it and give Obama 2 appointments to make?
We “now” know the Republicans actually grabbed some sac and didn’t approve Merrick but that was a surprise for all.
It’s nobody’s business when the Notorious RBG retires
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Oh, I think GOD might have a say-so in the matter.
I-m sure PDJT has a good nominee ready to replace her, whether she lasts one hour or one week or even a month
she’s pretty clearly stayed far over her time, just looking at her she should definitely retire while she still can, imho
Watch, he’s already talking crap about judicatory independence. Have you heard and watched the act from the 9 th circuit? Have you forgot the pretzel he made to support Obamacare care? Maybe you don’t remember Obama’s rebuke of the court.
She won’t retire under Trump. She’ll either drop over dead in public, or she’ll be propped up some way or other.
Most likely.
Nobody mentions the *reason* she didn’t want to surrender her seat during Obama. It is because she believes her seat is a “Jewish” seat. Obama was quite clear he would nominate someone who wasn’t Jewish.
While this sounds like a ridiculous assertion on the surface, for years the liberals and leftists have wanted to permanently label seats on their court for their various interest groups.
As you might expect, the RINOs in the senate actually wanted to accommodate, in convoluted ways, what the Democrats wanted. For example, by supporting Clarence Thomas to take Thurgood Marshall’s “black seat”; though the Democrats soon realized that Thomas was not one of their “liberal plantation blacks”, but instead, their worst nightmare.
Don’t look for sense or reason from leftists, including RBG.
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