This is an amazing article framing Ginsburg's refusal to retire while Democrats held the Senate as some kind of heroism instead of pure vanity. Pancreatic cancer (which she was diagnosed with in 2009) has a 5% five-year survival rate. She was 81 in 2014.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/magazine/ginsburg-successor-obama.html …
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I admire grit and determination to beat the odds, but not in the pilots of single-engine aircraft or liberal supreme court justices
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Replying to @Pinboard
Except she did beat the odds. Maybe being a Justice kept her alive.
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Maybe it did. Her legacy will now be moving the Supreme Court hard to the right, perhaps for decades.
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