Posted on 09/19/2020 5:33:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
One could almost feel the collective, international gasp at the breaking news of the death on Friday of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at the age of 87, from complications related to pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg was first diagnosed in 2009, beating back for years a demonic malignancy that claims most lives in less than half that time. She was a warrior—a warrior for civil rights, for gender rights, for constitutional rights, to be sure. But in this moment of American history when democracy itself hangs by a thread, with a yawning crevasse of authoritarianism menacingly before us, perhaps her most important contribution is a reminder of a life lived with an unflinching value system—a value system defined by civility, compassion, critical thinking, decency, and grace. She was exactly what the soul of America is lacking right now.
Famously, RBG and the late Justice Antonin Scalia were close friends. Upon his unexpected death, her remarks modeled the kind of integrity and friendship that we hope for our own children:
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Where has RBG’s spirit of respect and tolerance gone? Does it still live amid the purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain?
To be sure, Justice Ginsburg was not alone among members of the Supreme Court in her penchant for putting civility and professionalism over politics—it is an ethos of that institution that, so far, has survived this dark era of American history. But as a woman who, despite her top grades at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, took a job teaching law when no law firm would hire her, Justice Ginsburg occupied a Supreme Court class by hersel.
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Easy to be ‘civil’ when you’re in a coma most of the time, but still drawing a big, fat paycheck from the Taxpayers! Who’s going to make waves about THAT?
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!
Next!
These Nevertrumpers are revealing themselves as Neversincere in the “conservatism” they used to profess.
I think your recollection would make a fine short story.
Bill Kristol is a hard line leftist (he Dad started out that way but did publish some thoughtful articles, kid Bill is worthless however and must be a great disappointment to his daddy)
if Ruth was “civil” I respect her for that.
But she was also a commie and dis=respecter of the Constitution she swore to uphold. She had no business being on the SCt. And she obviously over-stayed by years, thus dragging herself and the court into even greater disrespect.
I am glad she is off the court now. PDJT has to select a top quality judge who will uphold the Constitution and our individual liberties for a change. And, Senator McConnell has to set strict rules to prevent the D’s from turning the Confirmation into another disgusting pack of lies and slanders like how they ruined the Kavanaugh hearings. With a final vote deadline of, say, this Friday. Let’s get behind Sen. McConnell and help push the Senate to get this done for us now! No more delays, Ruth did too much delaying already.
I guess we don’t need a Supreme Court.
The Democrat Party will just rule on everything.
Why thank you. I will pursue it.
Frightening but apt.
What??? Give me a break!!! Lets not let the left spread this kind of nonsense. Before President Trump was elected she promised to move to New Zealand if he became the next President, and made so many other nasty comments that both the New York Slimes and the Washington Compost wrote editorials that said she was wrong.
She showed the President absolutely no respect after he was elected. She probably made the travel arrangements for Justice Scalia’s last outing to the Cibolo Creek Ranch where no accommodations for his body guards were made and they had to stay 10 miles away. What else are good liberal friends for?
It seems to me that a supreme court justice who openly reveals her political hatred should not just have been recused but should have been removed from the court permanently
“Civility” my ass
a demonic malignancy .....
you know the kind that lives in all liberals.
I cant be the only one sick hearing about the Scalia-Ginsburg friendship. Its nauseating and honestly I don’t doubt its being overhyped, nevertheless it makes me slightly question my hero worship of Scalia lol because she always struck me as quite a dim bore.
Who TF is the “Bulwark” to demand/proscribe anything?
Sit on it and rotate, Bill Kristol.
I would love to see every one of them out on street corners with a begging bag for their daily sustenance.
Indeed, let's go to the video tape:
and if we had a more functional Congress,
regarding her first argument before SCOTUS in 1973: I knew so much more about the case, the issue, than they did.
If a judge is called an activist, you know the person saying that doesn’t like the decisions.
ELLE: When you hear about young womennot calling themselves feminist, what doyou think? RBG: I think they just don’t understand what the word means.
Our government is not doing as much as some European governments
I get it, that you've got to fight your way to the top. So maybe a SCOTUS justice may be a little cocky (though I never saw that in a Thomas or Scalia or Alito interview). But boy, she had very little respect and little tolerance for opposing views.
they really dont understand that half the country hated this womans guts...
We’ve probably all met this kind of liberal — they are very cultured and well-mannered so long as you don’t disagree with any of their views on any subject. The minute you do, they turn into harsh ideologues. At least we are honest enough to start off that way.
She was a warrior—a warrior for civil rights, for gender rights, for constitutional rights, to be sure.
She ruled from the bench and made her decisions on her personal experiences in life as a women and her feelings and not the constitution. Allowing the slaughter of innocence is reprehensible all in the false narrative of women’s health.
“Thirty million dead babies were unavailable for comment.”
At some point in the future the survivors of this culture of death will rightfully view her as the Himmler or Goebbels of her time, with bloody hands from the black genocide of abortion in the US.
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