She also literally thought she was the only one who should be in the damn chair, though. She refused to retire out of ego.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/rbg-fires-back-against-critics-who-say-she-should-have-retired-under-obama.html …
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Congrats on entirely missing the point. And she didn't always do her reading or pay attention to the world around her. She called Kaepernick's protests "dumb" without even knowing what the fuck it was about.https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/14/13289256/ruth-bader-ginsburg-kaepernick-harsh …
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Democrats controlled the Senate in 2013, and if McConnell had tried to permanently block Ginsburg's replacement Democrats could've nuked the filibuster for SCOTUS confirmation the way they just had for the lower courts, and as McConnell did anyway four years later
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If RBG had retired and the seat stayed vacant because Harry Reid didn't have the stones to nuke the filibuster and McConnell did, then the seat going to a Republican would be Harry Reid's fault But that's not what happened, and what actually did happen is Ginsburg's fault
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And Ginsburg's description of her reasoning in this article is exactly the attitude that's so frustrating and that's shared by so many other liberals in high places Like it's all about her quality as a justice and that she shouldn't have to step aside for someone less good
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The idea of the court as a political football and the absolute necessity of holding that ground isn't on her radar The kind of person who'd go out to the opera with Scalia and treat this shit like a scholarly game
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No sense that it absolutely *does not matter* how brilliant her opinions and dissents are because the instant she dies in a Republican administration it all gets flushed down the toilet That's why it's so fucking maddening, everything that's happening is exactly as predicted
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Democrats had a 55-seat majority in the Senate in 2013 whereas in 2016 the Republicans had a 54-seat majority This isn't actually complicated
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