Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead

[Nearly Sane]

Great figure. Despite the fact that she will be replaced, irreplaceable. And if the Republicans do the replacing before the election, an indication that they are hypocrites.


A hugely pivotal time for the Supreme Court.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54214729

[jeremyp]

If Trump manages to replace her before he loses control, it will be a disaster for American democracy.

In hindsight, she should have stepped down during the Obama era when she could have been replaced with a non sock puppet for the GOP.

[Aruntraveller]

A very sad loss and potentially a disastrous one. I don't know what options the Democrats have to block this, but they need to try.

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Very sad to hear about her death. She really was a champion for not stereo-typing people based on sex and there were some interesting decisions in the cases with which she was involved.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90552657/ruth-bader-ginsbergs-career-completely-changed-the-way-we-think-about-women-and-men?partner=feedburner

The Senate Majority leader (Republican) has said that Trump's candidate to replace RBG should be voted on by the Senate before the Presidential election, despite saying the opposite when conservative justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, where he said  he’d let the people speak their voice in the presidential election rather allow consideration of President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland.
 

[Nearly Sane]

Very sad to hear about her death. She really was a champion for not stereo-typing people based on sex and there were some interesting decisions in the cases with which she was involved.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90552657/ruth-bader-ginsbergs-career-completely-changed-the-way-we-think-about-women-and-men?partner=feedburner

The Senate Majority leader (Republican) has said that Trump's candidate to replace RBG should be voted on by the Senate before the Presidential election, despite saying the opposite when conservative justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, where he said  he’d let the people speak their voice in the presidential election rather allow consideration of President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland.

And it should be noted that Scalia died in the February of an election year, not mid September. The Republicans are filled with hypocritical pieces of shite.

[Nearly Sane]

Obama on RBG


https://obama.medium.com/my-statement-on-the-passing-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-5a925b627457

[ad_orientem]

For some reason this was on the newsover here last night. I couldn't help thinking, why? Who cares? Americans, of course, but I found it odd.

[Harrowby Hall]

Does not Finnish newsmedia report report about the somewhat bizarre nature of Donald Trump's perception of reality? Given the influence of the USA in world affairs, the opportunity for him to directly alter the political balance of the Supreme Court isurely concerns all of us.