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U.S. top court's Ginsburg misses oral arguments again
yahoo / Reuters ^ | January 8, 2019

Posted on 01/08/2019 8:27:35 AM PST by SMGFan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first absence from the bench extended into a second day on Tuesday as the 85-year-old jurist continued her recovery from lung cancer surgery at home.

Although Ginsburg did not attend the oral arguments, she will participate in the cases and rulings by using the briefs and oral argument transcripts, Chief Justice John Roberts announced from the bench.

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To: Still Thinking
Did X42 fill any vacancies while he was being impeached?

No, his nominations were 1993 and 1994 (Ginsburg then Breyer), and the impeachment nonsense was in 1998. (Impeached for lying to investigators... gee, sound familiar? The petulant Left wants to exact the same punishment on the Right... and for all the substantive reasons to impeach Bill, they chose a stupid process crime. Dumb... and Trump is paying the price now.)

101 posted on 01/08/2019 10:49:34 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: humbleexpert
which will impair the judgment she’ll use when ruling on cases. Which means that a bright law student in full possession of his or her faculties could render more astute opinions than those coming from RBG’s addled brain. Is this what the Supreme Court has come to?

You honestly think she has authored her own opinions in the last few years? LOL

Most Appellate Justices (federal and state) have their clerks (mostly law students or recent graduates) writing sections of their opinions, if not the entire opinion on occasion (for the less meaningful cases). This is nothing new. RGB likely hasn't contributed more than her signature in quite some time.

102 posted on 01/08/2019 10:53:40 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: madprof98

Weeket At Ginzee’s with Roberts holding her up unty Trump leaves office.


103 posted on 01/08/2019 11:23:41 AM PST by Terry Mross (I)
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To: doug from upland

ROTFLOL!!


104 posted on 01/08/2019 11:56:43 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: SMGFan

If she is unable to participate in oral arguments then she should recuse herself from voting on those cases.

Trump should play hardball on this. We all know the dems would.


105 posted on 01/08/2019 12:08:23 PM PST by 5by5 (ad)
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To: SMGFan
Of course she CAN remain even if she's babbling unintelligibly and crapping her diapers in a comatose state. Maybe she can vote by eyeblinks or something. Doesn't make it right. People who want to change the Constitution ought to change the 'on the Court on life support' laws!
What really gets me is the media fantasy that pretends she's just a-ok, bouncing back, rejuvenated and mentally capable of decisions that will affect our country-they hope-forever.
Oh--on second thought--she will remain as long as GOD allows her. That's the final pink slip.
106 posted on 01/08/2019 1:36:04 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: SMGFan

Although I am diametrically opposed to every opinion she has entered or joined in on, I hope this is only a minor setback and not something major. I hope she is in reasonably good health and can return, at least until she quits. It’s good to have people like her on the other side to make things interesting, as long as they are not in the majority.


107 posted on 01/08/2019 3:47:19 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (I)
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To: Old Yeller
The Dems have done it before. . .Hillary Clinton clone in New York


108 posted on 01/08/2019 4:55:13 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I’d rather have Ginsberg vote for something I am against rather than Roberts who claimed to be a conservative but is now a turncoat.


109 posted on 01/08/2019 5:22:59 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: I want the USA back
Very nice. Suppose Kavanaugh wanted to have a few days at the beach getting confirmed . Do you suppose they would let him go as long as he read the transcripts?
Word back then was that he wouldn’t. Sounds to me like that just changed—and if so, he will nominally be the fifth vote for the conservative side. Whereas RBG will nominally only be the fourth vote for the “liberal” side. Which actually would be a good trade.

110 posted on 01/08/2019 5:23:14 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: SMGFan

So, why do we need a Supreme Court Building?

Obviously the Justices can now Telecommute.

Heck, time to demolish Court Houses from Coast to Coast and build Public Housing on the land for all the Illegal Invaders that are pouring in.


111 posted on 01/08/2019 5:30:18 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: so_real

There’s a book titled ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks’. It’s about the USSC.

It’s not at all unusual for clerks to write entire decisions in the name of their bosses. One study said 30% of decisions are entirely by clerks.


112 posted on 01/08/2019 5:36:07 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Toespi
Other than the following provision of the 25th Amendment, a person either is president, or he isn’t.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Congress - certainly the House of Representatives alone - doesn’t get to suspend the authority of the POTUS. Absent the concurrence of VP Pence and the cabinet.

113 posted on 01/08/2019 5:37:04 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: goodnesswins
Why can’t all of Congress work this way. They can stay in their Districts/States, and vote from there. We have technology that would make that easy.

I've been saying this for years.This would save millions each year on airfare alone. Plus, it would put our "overlords" back among the unwashed. Instead of posh parties, they could attend community meetings, where their EMPLOYERS!!could get to them. MAny more benefits!!!

114 posted on 01/08/2019 5:51:38 PM PST by snowtigger (Deplorable, and proud of it!!)
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