The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg megathread

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There's always going to be some Republican f--kwit here to spam the entire thread with derailing arguments and posts.

Your forgetting one simple fact though....I'm not a Republican.

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For politically uneducated mutes such as myself from outside the USA trying to explain what is going on to my associates, the Australian media is literally useless for understanding the big picture.

We will get Elton John songs and some RBG black and white clips with her achievements. But the big news is the effect that another nomination has on the US.

Let's say Trump nominates a right-wing judge for life before the election.

1. If Trump wins the election - what effect does this really have?

2. If Biden wins the election - and the SC is predominantly on the right, what effect does this really have?

I guess I am asking does it really matter in the lives of your average American.

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https://twitter.com/MikeShepard4/status/1308155299736547330

It would be an insult for RBG to be replaced by Amy Coney Barrett.

Maybe she should have retired in 2014.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/u-s-justice-ginsburg-hits-back-at-liberals-who-want-her-to-retire-idUSKBN0G12V020140801

So you could have whined about how awful Obama's replacement would have been?

Interesting point. Has any Supreme Court Justice ever resigned for political convenience in terms of timing of their replacement?

I would have thought that most human beings would hold the job until death as their ego would be a self-serving feedback loop that they could not break.

If someone offered me a geophysicist job for life, I would take it until the grave unless i became incapable of doing the job.