Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died

[GwynnInTheHall]

Yeah, I don't trust them to take the radical steps necessary.

Unfortunately it's all we got.

[DMT]

Don't despair too much--The Dems should win the WH, the Senate and keep the house--IF the GOP pushes through another Justice, the Dems simple expand the court and pack it with their choices. No need to play fair anymore.

Yeah, I don't trust them to take the radical steps necessary.

[GwynnInTheHall]

Don't despair too much--The Dems should win the WH, the Senate and keep the house--IF the GOP pushes through another Justice, the Dems simple expand the court and pack it with their choices. No need to play fair anymore.

[frae]

I can't do the political calculus tonight, I will instead just be sad for RBG and her family. Hell of a justice.

[DMT]

Despite winning the popular vote just once in 32 years, they will soon have a 6-3 majority. What a fucking shithole.

[umjewman]

Of course they will. They're all morally repugnant assholes who only care about their party, even though it's turned into a mockery of their supposed principles.

Just hoping enough of the ones in tight races feel like not pushing it through gives them a better chance of winning. But I’m very much not optimistic.

[DMT]

Just have to hope enough Republicans will recognize this is indistinguishable from Garland. But they’ll probably just ram this through with some pathetic excuse for “logic.”

Of course they will. They're all morally repugnant assholes who only care about their party, even though it's turned into a mockery of their supposed principles.

[umjewman]

Very sad day. It is incomprehensible to me how McConnell can sell the idea of trying to replace her before November when Scalia died in February, Garland was nominated in March, and he and other Republicans argued it was much too little time to get it done and it was immoral to do so with the election just a short 8 months away.

It is easy to forget she was considered a moderate most of her life, but the SC had moved so far to the right, she became a liberal by comparison, and the court is far more conservative now and likely to get even more so.

Just have to hope enough Republicans will recognize this is indistinguishable from Garland. But they’ll probably just ram this through with some pathetic excuse for “logic.”

[fuhrdog]

2020 only gets worse...far worse.

[Sour Masher]

I will always appreciate how she dedicated the last part of her life to saving the SCOTUS from Trump's shit--giving up the last 3+ years to prevent him from doing what we all KNOW he will try and do was a true sacrifice--Now, as though it hasn't already--The REAL fight begins.

Yeah, and it was her choice and right to stay on that long, but it amazes me how many octogenarians are in positions of vital import in our government. I was surprised she did not retire during the Obama era.

[GwynnInTheHall]

I will always appreciate how she dedicated the last part of her life to saving the SCOTUS from Trump's shit--giving up the last 3+ years to prevent him from doing what we all KNOW he will try and do was a true sacrifice--Now, as though it hasn't already--The REAL fight begins.

[Sour Masher]

Very sad day. It is incomprehensible to me how McConnell can sell the idea of trying to replace her before November when Scalia died in February, Garland was nominated in March, and he and other Republicans argued it was much too little time to get it done and it was immoral to do so with the election just a short 8 months away.

It is easy to forget she was considered a moderate most of her life, but the SC had moved so far to the right, she became a liberal by comparison, and the court is far more conservative now and likely to get even more so.

[DMT]

Oh man. RIP, but this is going to get ugly

Jesus Fucking Christ

[revo]

Oh man. RIP, but this is going to get ugly