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

[Rev. Rye]

Looking a bit closer at this, there were a few more things I was unaware of:
1) That there were actually calls for RBG to resign sometime in 2013-4, but, at least on her end, there was no real reason to leave, since, despite her age, she was still mentally sharp enough to do her duties.
2) Apparently, Judge Roberts is only halfway on board with the decision, with him okay with banning abortion after 15 weeks, but still being against overturning Roe and Casey.

That said, it speaks volumes about IA's beliefs that he blames, of all people, Ginsburg, and not, you know, the right-wing judges who are actually endorsing the decision, or people like Mitch McConnell who decided to jack the system and refuse to allow a vote on any candidate the Democratic party wanted to nominate.

Worth noting, the approach McConnell has decided is standard operating procedure doesn't have much of a basis in the past. The last case of a Supreme Court Justice leaving during an election year when the Presidency and Senate were controlled by different parties was in 1888, but that candidate was confirmed 41-20. The closest thing to a precedent I can find is when Fillmore tried and failed to nominate Edward Bradford to the Court in 1852, but I could find no reasoning behind why they did so. With this in mind, I cannot imagine RBG would have expected McConnell to pull some bullshit out of his ass in 2016.

Even his more recent apparent stance of not committing to ANY of Biden’s nominees if the Republicans control the senate doesn’t even have any precedent before 2016, and is, indeed, contradicted by David Souter and Clarence Thomas being confirmed by a Democratic controlled senate during the first Bush administration during my lifetime.