RIP RBG

     This!!!

Theresa Greenfield is running against Ernst.... May be a shot?

Sen Grassley other one from Iowa says he will not vote so who knows............

RIP.

She fought the good fight. May she rest with God.

Her body wasn’t yet 50 degrees before the Repugnicans were ghoulishly tweeting their opportunities.

10 minutes for Ernst!!

I turned off all the lights downstairs, left the family to fend for themselves and crawled under the covers around 8 pm.

I don’t know how much more that I can handle.

Very sad about this news. She was a great woman, and her voice and point of view will be missed greatly on the Supreme Court.

We are all grieving in my family. I’m about to leave a group I’m in where a few of them are being horrible about her, if the others don’t speak up.

I have hopes that enough Republican senators will refuse to vote on a replacement, that they’ll have to put an appointment on hold.



That was a very graceful response on his part. Therefore, I don’t believe for a moment that it was the first he’d heard of her passing.

Honestly, if it was, I think he would have just responded with something like wow, oh no, I’m sorry, or the like. (If not with something wildly inappropriate/gleeful/derogatory.) There was no need to make a point of saying “this is the first I've heard of it.”

Therefore, it’s most likely he heard about it right away, before the press did, and practiced saying something graceful in response when confronted.

Which isn’t a terrible thing. I just don’t believe those were his first actual responses to the news. After four years of him, we know better.

IOKIYAR

I hope I do this right...
From Barack Obama:
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“ Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But because she was a woman, she was rejected. Ten years later, she sent her first brief to the Supreme Court––which led it to strike down a state law based on gender discrimination for the first time. And then, for nearly three decades, as the second woman ever to sit on the highest court in the land, she was a warrior for gender equality––someone who believed that equal justice under law only had meaning if it applied to every single American.

Over a long career on both sides of the bench––as a relentless litigator and an incisive jurist––Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are––and who we can be.

Justice Ginsburg inspired the generations who followed her, from the tiniest trick-or-treaters to law students burning the midnight oil to the most powerful leaders in the land. Michelle and I admired her greatly, we’re profoundly thankful for the legacy she left this country, and we offer our gratitude and our condolences to her children and grandchildren tonight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored.

Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in.

A basic principle of the law––and of everyday fairness––is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming years––with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures––are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.”

I saw this on Twitter. I’m not sure if it’s accurate, but I thought it was a nice tribute too.

I went snooping on a well-known conservative blog. There were hundreds of comments under an an announcement of RBG’s death. This comment sort of sums up the general feelings of the commenters. BTW, the Amy Barrett mentioned is Amy Coney Barrett, rumored to be one of the top Trump picks to replace RBG. Barrett is...interesting.



“1. Nominate Barrett tomorrow.
2. Cocaine Mitch schedule hearings in 2 weeks.
3. Let Dems call her a Roe destroying, bigoted Catholic succubus — their usual unhinged schtick.
4. Cut off debate, confirm her on a party line vote.
5. Film the screaming, hydrophobic Handmaid’s Tale wastrels scrabbling at the SC doors in psychic agony.

Don’t apologize, don’t equivocate, don’t delay: get it done. (Romney and Murkowski need to understand: you stand in the way, you get the metaphorical Fredo row boat ride.)

Grandstanding and fake Hamlet dithering will not be tolerated. Not now. Not when America is burning and the D’s have unleashed a no-holds-barred political and cultural Tong War. This is now about the clinical use of power: Mitch knows this drill.

Let the D media lapdogs howl with incandescent rage; let the D party leadership threaten reprisals that were already their scorched earth plan the minute they regain the whip hand.

We would have preferred comity, collegiality, respectful disagreement. They have chosen a coup attempt in plain sight, riots, metastasizing lunacy and anything goes political terrorism.

Win. Prepare for the next phase of hostilities.”