RBG’s Departure Might Look A Lot Like Thurgood Marshall’s

Empiracal SCOTUS ^ | August 10, 2020 | Dr. Adam Feldman

[DoodleBob]

Martin-Quinn Scores are a good way of quantifying the voting pattern of Justices. This visual very nicely lines up the Justices. Basically, while there are four 'liberal' justices, Sotomayor was the closest to Ginsburg (in some MQ calculations, she was slightly more liberal than RBG):

[E. Pluribus Unum]

God works in mysterious ways.

[Lumper20]

RBG was pure trash. I am no Roberts fan either.

[Samurai_Jack]

FILL THAT SEAT!!

[Fungi]

Never trust a man of two minds. Roberts is an epileptic. At one point in time, epileptics could not get a driver license, but they can serve on a court.

[cdcdawg]

Marshall made a career out of agreeing with Brennan. That court was simply horrible. The “conservatives” were not very conservative. Presidents Reagan and Bush changed the court. I’ll give Bush I a little credit because Thomas turned out to be an all-time great. At least we got Justice Thomas out of them.

[Dr. Sivana]

I knew some politically connected people who were saying in the late ‘80s that Marshall was already mentally gone, spent his days watching TV, and told his clerks to do the work, but to never let drug dealers off.

I also remember when he finally retired, he referred to the pressure he received, and simply told them, “I’m falling apart.” That struck me as refreshingly honest.

[Terry L Smith]

RBG wanted to die in office.
So, she did, proving we need term limits for SCOTUS.

[TexasFreeper2009]

we could put a steak through the heart of commie liberals for the rest of my life if Trump is re-elected and he replaces Breyer also :) And unfortunately Thomas is probably nearing the end :( But replace both with YOUNG rock hard conservatives and we will have saved our country no matter who is president after Trump.

[BenLurkin]

Sure, but the left will never be able to top that funeral it staged for that dead thug.

Complete with Cinderellas pumpkin carriage!

[DoodleBob]

Based on this analysis, in his final term Marshall agreed least with Rehnquist and Scalia most with Blackmun and Stevens (figures). To your point, the MQ scores are much more polarized nowadays, but RBG and Thomas had a lower MQ score than Marshall had with Rehnquist and Scalia. Indeed, this long-run MQ score plot shows almost all justices get more liberal over time (though Alito and Kennedy seemed to get more conservative after Scalia died):

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

In both cases, good riddance to bad rubbish.

[ChildOfThe60s]

What we need more than that are Judges who are there to uphold the Constitution and not their own personal ideology

However, if they were there to uphold the Constitution and not subvert it they wouldn’t be liberals.

I have yet to personally know a liberal who, when you really get down to it with them, even believes in the rule of law. They don’t, that’s the fundamental difference.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Ginsburg’s clerks have been writing her opinions for years.

She brought in hard left ideologues knowing they would write opinions that she could simply rubber stamp.

[Bonemaker]

"Justice Ginsburg has had quite a few health scares..)" She was just taunting us...up 'til now.😃

[b4me]

“...proving we need term limits for SCOTUS.”

No. we just need judges who will honor their oath, and should they get to a point of not being able to do the work as they should ( requiring mostly help and they do little of the actual work) then honor their oath and respect the USofA citizens and step down. No shame in saying you are no longer up to the task. HUge shame in doing like RBG and hanging onto seat well passed your ability. No way she did much of the work in the last year with her cancer and frailty etc. She may have been so medicated too!, selfish to the end she was.

[Olog-hai]

That’d be a waste of steak. Better make it a stake instead 😎

[Bonemaker]

"RBG’s Departure Might Look A Lot Like Thurgood Marshall’s" Why yes, actually it does...both joyous events!😎

[TexasFreeper2009]

ha too funny :) nice catch

[T.B. Yoits]

RBG wanted to die in office. So, she did, proving we need term limits for SCOTUS.

We are long overdue for term limits for Representatives and Supreme Court Justices. This needed to happen at the same time as the term limits on the Presidency under FDR's regime of corruption.