Yay, GO CRUZ!
That is a deceitful headline and first paragraph: “Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a ceremonial resolution honoring the life of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...”
If I read it correctly, the resolution goes ahead. Cruz merely took out the inflammatory language about apocryphal story of her dying wish.
Schumer took to the floor immediately after Cruz spoke, stating that he believed “Justice Ginsburg would easily see through the legal sophistry” of Cruz’s argument. He said Cruz turned the late justice’s “dying words” against her, which Schumer said is “so, so beneath the dignity of this body. I do not modify.”
Cruz then objected to the resolution, and it did not pass.
In life RBG expressed distaste President Trump.
But she walked it back because it is unethical for judges to publicly talk politics.So it is actually unkind to the memory of RBG to publicize an apocryphal story
- or even a true one - to the effect that she denigrated the sitting president on her deathbed.I do not say I sincerely do not believe that she said it - she undoubtedly survived as long as shed did precisely because of her motive to see another Democrat POTUS - but I do say that it is improper to discuss it.
And that certainly it is nothing for Republicans
in authority precisely because their voters did not want Democrats to nominate any more SCOTUS justices
to take into account.