Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade

[Rev. Rye]

There’s no way RGB leaving the courts before she died would have prevented this. For one thing, she was part of the court’s left wing (such as it is), so even if Obama replaced her with someone else, it wouldn’t have shifted the ideological balance of the court. And on that note that of course they would have let him appoint a replacement, I would like to remind you that for most of the last year of Obama’s second term, the Republican-controlled Senate point-blank refused to even call a vote on ANY Supreme Court nominee Obama may name. Even when he picked the most anodyne centrist possible (one that a Republican senator had considered a good candidate years prior) they refused to budge. And it looks like, by this point, McConnell has all but stated that it’s now his policy that if the Republicans control the Senate, no Democratic President’s nominee will get confirmed.