Posted on 01/11/2019 9:50:48 AM PST by SMGFan
After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed her first oral arguments in more than 25 years on the bench this week while recovering from an operation to remove two cancerous growths from her left lung, many have expressed concern over whether she would return to the bench.
While doctors have said that Ginsburg's recovery time would be "normal" for the procedure she underwent, the 85-year-old's third struggle with cancer comes at a critical time for the Supreme Court. If Ginsburg, who will turn 86 in March, is unable to return to the bench, President Donald Trump would have the chance to nominate a third Supreme Court justice to the highest U.S. court.
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I expect different allegations against the next nominee, even Joan L. Larsen or Amy Coney Barrett, but the charges will be just as ugly. I won't speculate on the topic that the thug class will choose next time, but I have ideas. Truth is irrelevant to what we will see. Again.
Yep, and it WILL be brutal. They will not care about beating up a woman who is absolutely qualified for the job. They simply cannot have someone that conservative, and that young, take over RBG's seat.
Believe whatever crazy crap you choose, he’s still the chief justice just the same.
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Roberts jumped through HOOPS in order to find SOME way to foist Obamacare on us and betrayed every conservative - not to mention our constitution, in the process. I don’t think that’s “crazy crap.”
Now, if Thomas was sick, I certainly wouldn’t be “demanding he be allowed to vote.” I’d be demanding he step down. In fact, I think it would be great if he stepped down NOW just because he’s an old man and I would rather see Trump put someone in there 25 years younger who will keep the court conservative for another decade or two.
If President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, the Democrats will accuse her of being a religious extremist, who will force everyone to pray the Rosary three times a day. President Trump should nominate her anyway (if RBG resigns or dies).
The question everyone should be asking and meming is, “If RGB is too sick to attend this February’s State of the Union address then is she too sick to be working?”
Americans will miss laughing while she sleeps her way through it like the last few times.
January 29th State of the Union , Nancy’s invitation.
I don’t know man. She could hold on for years.
Alito is on average a good and reliable justice, but he is too pro-law enforcement, that is he is weak on the Fourth Amendment.
Nope, She’ll leave this world shortly.
May 13th. (No significance to the date; just an estimate.)
I predict that the left will try to kill the nominee if RBG retires or passes on. I do not believe the left will moderate in any fashion. Let’s hope I am wrong.
“Ginsburg Illness: If Trump Appointee Replaces Supreme Court Justice It Will Be ‘Brutal,’”
It doesn’t have to be long and drawn out.
The Constitution does not require the Senate to hold committee hearings on Supreme Court nominees. That is just tradition.
Send the nomination to the floor of the Senate and schedule a vote. Of course, each Senator should be given a chance to give a speech and state an opinion.
Twenty minutes per Senator should be plenty of time. That’s over 30 hours of talk - much more talking than the Senate did over the holidays when the nation was in the grips of the shutdown crisis.
No one in her condition should be allowed to continue in a Supreme Court Justice position.
She is incapable of rational thought while she fights for her life as the cancer ravages her body.
Most of us have known people going through the process of cancer slowly killing a loved one or friend. They frequently don’t think or act like themselves. Their primary thoughts are about dying and what the cancer is doing to them and that’s only if it hasn’t hit the brain yet. Then all bets are off. They are already gone then. McCain was gone long before his body died.
So if they can no longer keep her somehow breathing (has anyone actually seen her?) the dems will go nuts trying to stop the US Senate majority from voting for any SC judge? Wow. DC could actually get even stranger.
I....can’t....wait!!!!
JoMa
Sotomayor is the dark horse in this... she's younger than RBG and Breyer (as well as Thomas and Alito for that matter), but she has Type I Diabetes. This already led to a health scare a year ago. The wrong combination of events might mean her seat could be up for replacement in the next 5 years as well.
Exactly what I was thinking. Literal assassination of the nominee. Bedlam will follow.
The Dems can do no worse than with Kavanaugh. It will be a repeat of the same show. They threw every lie they could invent against him. I hope they do, as it diminished them when they went after Kavanaugh with lies and character assassination.
The media is working very hard to hide the truth.
The truth is probably that Ginsburg has had, at most, two struggles with cancer. It appears that she is now losing the second struggle.
I think it is unlikely that the "nodules", as I think I have heard them described, are stage 1 lung cancer. I think it far more likely that they are metastases from her prior colon or pancreatic cancers, which would be classed as stage 4 cancer. The difference in prognosis for the future would be dramatic.
My guess is that Ruth gets at least annual CT scans to detect problems. She may have shown signs of the nodules in her most recent scan. In order to plan her treatment, it would have been necessary to do a biopsy.
It may be that the "broken ribs" were really a procedure to take samples from the nodules. Only when the biopsy was completed was the announcement made that Ruth had cancer. The media wouldn't want to prematurely suggest that Ruth was seriously ill.
Even now the media is going along with the idea that everything has turned out fine. I don't think that is the case at all. She may well survive a couple more years, but it sounds like there isn't going to be any further treatment. It's not going to be a fun time at all. She will need to get great satisfaction out of continuing on the Court for the time she has left.
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