Guess the republican SCOTUS replacement.
For anyone interested in a serious analysis: https://reason.com/2020/09/09/two-cheers-for-president-trump...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
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Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#202Absolutely. My family is feverishly working on how to leave this hellscape of a country we’re in. The United States is dead.
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#203I think reading about Ruth and Antonin Scalia's friendship was the most wholesome political reading I've ever done. Hearing people divided in opinion, but not bitterly so, working together to figure out the best framework to construct American society from was inspirational. I hope the two halves of the political world can become friends in the way they were. Rest in peace Ruth. I hope if there's an after you and Ant…
Since the parent link is to an NPR piece, here's NPR's coverage of Ginsburg's memorial tribute to Scalia: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466848775/scalia-ginsburg-ope...
I'll also link a video of her eulogy to Scalia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2GgE564A
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#204Absolutely. My family is feverishly working on how to leave this hellscape of a country we’re in. The United States is dead.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#205Remove the Publicly visible Like Count and those kind of conversations and connections are easy. The Like count makes people defensive or aggressive especially when they are called out in public leading to never ending reaction and counter reaction cycles. Without that dumb random signal interfering in conversations all kinds of strange connections are possible. I see it at work meetings between highly competitive pe…
What. People were acrimonious in the medieval ages. They didn't have like counts. This is such total bullshit.
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#206Of course a president should not appoint a judge on the last few months of his term, should he?
One possible strategy for Trump (which would be very much out of character) would be to wait out of respect for RBG and/or the Garland precedent. Meanwhile, he uses the empty seat as a campaign issue to keep reluctant conservatives from jumping ship.
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#207For every one of the coming takes that Republicans will be hypocrites to appoint and confirm a justice (which they will) They do not give a fuck. That’s not how they see power and it is why they have a far disproportionate share of power/representation than their support across the electorate. This is about power. In politics, nothing else matters.
Hillary won the popular vote by 1.1% and currently the Republicans hold a razor thin Senate majority and have been substantially outpaced by Democrats in the House, so I'm not really sure where you get the idea that there's a "far disproportionate share of power/representation". It seems pretty proportionate to me.
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#208Remove the Publicly visible Like Count and those kind of conversations and connections are easy. The Like count makes people defensive or aggressive especially when they are called out in public leading to never ending reaction and counter reaction cycles. Without that dumb random signal interfering in conversations all kinds of strange connections are possible. I see it at work meetings between highly competitive pe…
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Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#209For every one of the coming takes that Republicans will be hypocrites to appoint and confirm a justice (which they will) They do not give a fuck. That’s not how they see power and it is why they have a far disproportionate share of power/representation than their support across the electorate. This is about power. In politics, nothing else matters.
Then it's time to fight back. Make it absolutely clear to McConnell and Democratic leaders in the Senate that if McConnell fills this seat in an election year, then the Democrats must increase the size of the SCOTUS. McConnell needs to fear the reprisal more than he fears the delay. Because you're right, this is about power. Nothing else matters to them. So make them fear this.
I can’t see Dems doing that. They don’t have the popular support for something like that, let alone the courage.
What they should do is physically barricade the Capitol. I’m not really joking. It will come to that.
My first guess of the most action they will take:
Staging a walk-out of the vote.
Re: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
#210I think this is the first time in a long while that a non-nytimes obituary post leads on HN. Did the nytimes social media team all move to npr? Anyways I think ginsburg is the perfect example of why we need age, health and/or term limits for SCOTUS. Lifetime appointments should not exist in any government position and health should be a consideration on whether someone can hold a major government position. It's embar…
It's not even surprising when you consider that SCOTUS judges are, by constitutional design, appointed by presidents, who by design, are supposed to represent the electorate.
If judges were supposed to be pure judges and not activists, they would be selected by an independent process purely based on legal / academic merit.
All judges, but especially Supreme Court ones, are political activists. They just have the education and experience to wrap it in legal language.