Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by tunesmith on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:03PM
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When? Was she to have perfect foresight in the first two years of Obama's two terms that that was her only window?
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When she was ~75 years old, and that doesn't take any political foresight to know she was old then.
The foresight wasn't about her being old, the foresight was about just how much the next Republican administration would skirt precedence and the rule of law.
Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by remote_phone on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:42PM
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It was obvious she should have retired then. I think she was great but her not retiring during Obama’s last term was arrogance. And now there is a good chance that filling the Supreme Court with another republican justice will motivate a lot of anti-trump voters who will hold their nose and vote him in just to pack the courts.
I said the first two years of his first term. That was her only window.
Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by remote_phone on Saturday September 19, 2020 @01:18AM
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That is absurd. She could have retired halfway through Obama’s second term. Obama didn’t have any political courage or will to fight McConnell. He was thinking “we will win the next time anyway” which was also political arrogance.
If he did have courage we would have had Merrick Garland. It wouldn’t have been easy but it would have been worth the fight. If you’re saying that he was powerless against the Republicans then what’s the point in a president?
"If Obama had courage we would have had Merrick Garland" is a non-obvious conclusion that has widespread disagreement. If you're sure it's correct, can you post your reasoning of the techniques that Obama and the Democrats could have used that would have inexorably led to Garland's confirmation? Please make the argument.