Justice Ginsburg: “nothing in the Constitution” prevents filling court seat in final year

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The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016 said “nothing in the Constitution” prevents a president from nominating to fill a seat on the Supreme Court. She was very supportive of Judge Merrick Garland’s candidacy at the time. She also made it clear she detested President Trump.

“I think he is about as well qualified as any nominee to this court,” Ginsburg said of Garland, according to a July 2016 report from The New York Times. “Super bright and very nice, very easy to deal with. And super prepared. He would be a great colleague.”

“That’s their job,” Ginsburg told the New York Times. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”

Justice Ginsburg, 83, said she would not leave her job “as long as I can do it full steam.” But she assessed what is at stake in the presidential election with the precision of an actuary, saying that Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G. Breyer are no longer young.

“Kennedy is about to turn 80,” she said. “Breyer is going to turn 78.”

She chose to not retire and not let Barack Obama fill her seat. It’s on her. Whether she was wishing for something else on her deathbed is sad but irrelevant.


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Tim Shep
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Tim Shep
3 years ago

What will be will be. The Marxist democrats wouldn’t hesitate and neither should the Republicans. However there will be the few RINOS who will cave.

Yerlan
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Yerlan
3 years ago

why the hell do we have to feel sorry for the death of a wicked witch? She is a murder of unborn children,millions of them

Yerlan
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Yerlan
3 years ago
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Of course she is going to hell where she belongs,Good Riddance indeed,I’m happy she died,and I’m sad why it took so long for her to die,

Lynda
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Lynda
3 years ago
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The world will dance on your grave you vile piss ant. You are nobody. You take up space and air that a decent person cod use.

Judyann Joyner
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Judyann Joyner
3 years ago

I’m sorry but, that supposed death bed statement, quite likely another of the DemLet’s horse hockey meant to tug at some heart strings.

I have cared for many patients end stage cancer. There ARE no discussions at the end. Not about anything. This is all terribly sad for her family, her friends but, this is BUSINESS.

If this were Democrats in control of the WH and Senate, there would not be a single esitation, the seat would be filled, period.