Posted on 01/28/2018 7:15:00 PM PST by mairdie
Whispers are rampant throughout D.C. that a vacancy is imminent on the U.S. Supreme Court - one that is currently taken by one of the most liberal members of the Court.
It has the Trump White House giddy over the prospect of potentially and forcefully shifting the balance of power on the Court while Democrats in Congress are said to be warning White House staff of a prolonged and brutal fight should President Trump attempt to replace a liberal Justice with a hardline-conservative nominee.
The reason for the Justice's alleged departure is said to be "ongoing illness/physical limitations."
The first on the Court that comes to mind given those clues is 84-year old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Justice Ginsberg has visibly slowed down a great deal in recent years, and has been prone to falling asleep in public, even when on the bench. Ginsberg's office has taken to pushing back on rumors of her health issues via a series of left-leaning media publications, but Court watchers have noted Ginsberg's increasingly limited public schedule of late.
Despite his 79-years, Justice Stephen Bryer's place on the Court apparently remains secure, but not so with two others - swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, and liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 63.
Justice Kennedy, a moderate liberal (or moderate conservative depending on who you talk to) has already hinted at possible retirement, so he is not the likely source of the current Supreme Court rumors. Justice Sotomayor, though, despite being among the Court's younger members, is said to be struggling greatly with her workload as she deals with a worsening diabetes condition. Court watchers have noted a visible decline in just the last year where she appears to have aged ten years. Rumors are also swirling regarding staff having to take up an increasing workload for the ailing Sotomayor who is said to have difficulty maintaining her train of thought for more than short periods of time. And like Ginsberg, Sotomayor's staff is working hard to orchestrate a media-driven narrative to counter rumors of her decline.
Here is the thought that is now keeping the far-left elites up at night. Justice Kennedy might very well be preparing for retirement. That would be one Supreme Court vacancy. And if the rumors of ill health regarding Ginsberg and Sotomayor are in fact true, that could be two or even THREE vacancies on the Court for Trump to fill within the next year or two.
She’s not in control of her departure date (from mortal coil), unless she offs herself.
So, one can always hope for the best.
Dems can insist all they want.
They’ ain’t the majority and they ain’t in charge.
Big if true! I doubt we are that lucky though.>>>. i’m hoping that it is not luck and maybe god was in this one. for the world that he says he does love.
Blog crap
Justice Sonia Sotomayor treated by paramedics for symptoms of low blood sugar
This reminds me of the fact that a company's stock always plummets when it misses its quarterly earnings projection by a single cent. The reason: if a company doesn't have enough reserves to manipulate/increase its earnings by one cent, then there's something deeper going on.
If Sonia Sotomayor, with all the care she must be taking to maintain appearances while Supreme Court Justice, can't keep herself up off the floor, then there must be something seriously wrong.
Ginsberg has already said she’s not going.
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And perhaps the Wise Latina’s imminent resignation is why she made a point of saying something.
That is what I have read as well, from documents in the Middle Ages in England, I read in a book a few years ago. Once a person made it through childhood, and if a woman, through the child bearing years, 70s and 80s were not uncommon at all.
Your correct, my genealogy research shows many ancestors who lived into their 80s and 90s.
Our founding fathers didn’t worry about age limits; they believed that the voters would elect honorable, capable, and patriotic men and that those elected would appoint the same.
That is one concept that did not last very long.
No kidding. So true. Liberals are making her some sort of “goddess”. They really put weird people on a pedestal.
Yeah, seems odd.
Well, a lot of court rulings are about things that aren’t originalism-related. Indeed, a few big ones are.
Like tech disruption. Take mass encryption- do we change the law to fit the tech or change the tech to fit the law or something in between?
I’d like a broad examination.
So what. The bell tolls for everyone sometime. She won't get to make that call when it happens.
“Just looked it up, even Kagan is 57. Man, time flies, I thought both Sotomayor and Kagan were in their late forties.”
Sotomayar and Kagan are both illegitimate. Appointed by a usurper. They’re so radical, that even with our cucked congress, they should have never been appointed. The fact they have not been impeached and removed is a further indictment on how farked congress truly is.
For the reason I posted in the next sentence
Ruthie Ain’t Livin Long Like This
There are plenty of nameless, faceless desk jobs to slink off to after being the stalking horse. Still, you have prestige in being *nominated* for the Supreme Court. Looks good on an obit.
There is no such thing as a moderate. One is either for the Constitution or against it.
And Roberts is a disaster.
To the SOTU, not “the other side.”
Once again, I remember what LOL really means. Thank you for that.
Replacing an insane leftest on the Supreme Court would make up for what the rats did to us when H.W. Bush got bamboozled by the closet homosexual David Souter.
Yes, I know that it was John Sununu who recommended the liberal puke Souter. But he replaced a solid conservative, William J. Brennan.
Getting rid of one of the communist on the court would take the balance to where it was before (6-3 pro-America conservative).
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