RE: Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade
May 4, 2022 at 11:20 pm
(May 4, 2022 at 9:21 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: 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.
RBG was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009, and she had survived colon cancer before that. No one is saying she wasn't mentally sharp enough. She took a huge risk in not resigning due to her health issues and history. Her ego and love for the work wouldn't let her step down. You may not like that I brought her up, but hero worship and a refusal to criticize your own side is not how you grow and learn from mistakes. Constructive criticism is.
My post said that the decision was awful news, so I think it should go without saying that I am not in favour of the people that made that awful decision. If you didn't get that out of my post, then you clearly didn't want to get that out of my post and you were looking for something to be bothered by. Me straying from the hero worship of RBG speaks volumes to you about my beliefs? I couldn't be any more pro abortion and I have no issue with a woman or transman getting an abortion on their due date. I like you Rev, but you're barking up the wrong tree here acting like me not specifically spelling out the words "Republicans bad" tells you all you need to know. You're right much of the time, but not this time, and you're not a mind reader.
