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Ruth Bader Ginsburg "will retire in January, 2019"
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I suspect that to be correct . . .
But I can't find any substantiation to the claim.
In the meantime . . .
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The suspicious political timing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s retirement comments
July 30, 2018
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/30/the-suspicious-political-timing-of-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-retirement-comments/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ccf2039ba21b
Supreme Court justices aren't supposed to be political actors, and they aren't supposed to time their retirements to ensure they are replaced with a like-minded justice.
But Ruth Bader Ginsburg's latest comment about when she will retire is almost impossible to separate from politics. Indeed, it almost seems to send a concerted signal to liberals not to worry about her handing President Trump another Supreme Court vacancy.
“I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90. So think I have about at least five more years.”
This is a message that understandably cheered liberals. While Neil Gorsuch was the appetizer for conservatives, and Brett Kavanaugh would be the first course, a Ginsburg vacancy would be the feast.
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Liberals panic as White House prepares for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s possible retirement
Fri Jan 11, 2019
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/liberals-panic-as-white-house-prepares-for-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-possible-re
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The political world is abuzz with rumors that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may soon resign from the U.S. Supreme Court, potentially sparking the most intense fight yet over President Donald Trump’s third nominee to the nation’s highest court.
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If Ginsburg does retire during Trump’s tenure, it’s expected to set off one of the most intense political battles in recent memory. Ginsburg is a left-wing jurist who has notoriously ruled for abortion and against employers’ conscience rights, as well as for same-sex “marriage” despite calls to recuse herself on the issue because she’s personally officiated several such “weddings.”
“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court,” she wrote in the North Carolina Law Review. “Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”
The debate over Trump’s first nominee Neil Gorsuch was bitter, but largely conventional as he was replacing another conservative in the late Antonin Scalia. But Brett Kavanaugh, his nominee to replace liberal swing vote Anthony Kennedy, sparked a much harsher battle up to and including last-minute, uncorroborated claims that Kavanaugh had assaulted several women.
Replacing Ginsburg, a pro-abortion “feminist” icon and the subject of a lionizing, just-released film, is certain to be even more inflammatory. Abortion advocates are already displaying signs of panic, with Politico columnist Roger Simon going so far as to muse about liberals hypothetically donating parts of their own lifespan to extend hers:
Of particular concern for conservatives will be whether the president names a reliable pro-life jurist to replace Ginsburg. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have generally pleased conservatives so far, though it’s unknown how either would vote on Roe and Kavanaugh recently alarmed pro-lifers by voting not to hear Kansas and Louisiana’s case on cutting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid.
The general consensus among pro-life and conservative activists is that Trump’s best choice would be Amy Coney Barrett, a pro-life originalist who has criticized excessive deference to precedent. The president already named Barrett to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017; during her confirmation hearings several Democrats attacked her for, in California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s words, the fact that the Catholic faith “lives loudly in you.” Republicans gained Senate seats in the midterm elections, meaning Trump won't have to worry about winning the votes of pro-abortion Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.
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