Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by permo-w on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:33PM
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this may come across as emotional, and I suspect it is, so feel free to downvote me. but that person, dead or alive, is completely non-grata to me. she is a big part to blame for allowing the court to become so heavily conservative. if she had stood down in Obama's early years, when she was asked to, it would be a 5-4 split, and a good chance that they wouldn't have had the balls to follow through with this
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I'll try my best to phrase this delicately, as I understand it's an emotional topic for Americans right now, but perhaps RBG chose not to step down because she knew that the action of stepping down was inherently political, and after years on the court, had decided to avoid setting a precedent of Blue/Red judges tactically stepping down when their respective party is in power.
Who knows what her real reasoning may have been, but that's my interpretation.
That doesn’t change it from being a blunder since it IS inherently political and the consequences were the same.
I agree. In her shoes, I would not have done the same.
I am not American, so forgive my question, what is the context? Was she expected to step down due to age, so Obama could appoint a new judge? Rather than dying by age under a different president?
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by hihihihi1234 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:13AM
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If she had stepped down before 2016, Obama would have been able to appoint another liberal judge to replace her, and the political balance of the court would have remained unchanged. Instead, she died in 2020 and Trump replaced her with a far more conservative judge, which is indirectly one of the reasons why Roe v Wade was just overturned.
Of course, it must be remembered that almost no-one actually expected Trump to win 2016. So perhaps she didn't feel like there was actually much risk of her being replaced by a conservative, so it was safe to stay on.
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by thathndude on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:51PM
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This is an interesting take I haven’t seen before. It is intriguing.
Agreed. RBG's refusal to step down was a massive blunder. She had too much of a cult of personality around her, and it went to her head.