I notice that you said 2012-2014 since a retirement in 2014-2016 would have resulted in an even more rapidly stolen seat. I don't see how we can blame RBG for not being able to see the future and the re-writing of the rules by Mitch McConnell.
I'd much rather blame Mitch than a dead woman who worked her ass off for this country, both legally and in her Herculean effort to stay alive. She almost made it and he had to re-write the rules AGAIN.
You're exactly right. Too bad she didn't have ESP in addition to all her other talents and accomplishments!
With all the work we need to come together do this year, I can hardly believe we still have to deal with this same nonsense...a decade later! I guess it's just easier for some folks to denigrate a dead woman.
Still, you could easily read the tea leaves, she was 78-79 years old, the senate majority was 100% going to the GOP after the next election, and she still didn't retire. I'm not one of the people asking Sotomayor to retire, she's only 69 years old even though it would be great since there's no way Schumer will be majority leader next January.
Counterfactuals are interesting but of limited value.
Not only have multiple troublesome cases included Roberts (so a 5-4 Court would not generally have changed the result), who's to say what happens? The Republicans controlled Congress and the presidency in 2017. They expected RBG would soon die.
What if she resigned & a young liberal was on the Court. Would a Trump led party just sigh and say "oh well, guess abortion rights are safe now?"
I just keep thinking how different a 5-4 court would have been.... If only RBG had retired in between 2012-14.
I notice that you said 2012-2014 since a retirement in 2014-2016 would have resulted in an even more rapidly stolen seat. I don't see how we can blame RBG for not being able to see the future and the re-writing of the rules by Mitch McConnell.
I'd much rather blame Mitch than a dead woman who worked her ass off for this country, both legally and in her Herculean effort to stay alive. She almost made it and he had to re-write the rules AGAIN.
You're exactly right. Too bad she didn't have ESP in addition to all her other talents and accomplishments!
With all the work we need to come together do this year, I can hardly believe we still have to deal with this same nonsense...a decade later! I guess it's just easier for some folks to denigrate a dead woman.
Still, you could easily read the tea leaves, she was 78-79 years old, the senate majority was 100% going to the GOP after the next election, and she still didn't retire. I'm not one of the people asking Sotomayor to retire, she's only 69 years old even though it would be great since there's no way Schumer will be majority leader next January.
Counterfactuals are interesting but of limited value.
Not only have multiple troublesome cases included Roberts (so a 5-4 Court would not generally have changed the result), who's to say what happens? The Republicans controlled Congress and the presidency in 2017. They expected RBG would soon die.
What if she resigned & a young liberal was on the Court. Would a Trump led party just sigh and say "oh well, guess abortion rights are safe now?"