Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Blairite, please remove or edit your wide post.  It makes the page too wide.

[SnowLabrador]

Welp, democracy was nice while it lasted. And congratulations to re-elected President Trump.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Sooo that’s it? Trump has won re election?

[Middle-aged Europe]

How would one add seats to the court?  Wouldn't that require a constitutional amendment?

Size of the court is not specified in U.S. consitution, instead legislated by Congress.

The current number of nine SC justices is based on the Judiciary Act of 1869.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Political strategy implications - do you risk the hypocrisy of forcing a pick in before November, or do you wait it out and use it to rally your base?

Regardless - these "RBG better make it to January" posts are hauntingly eerie now.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sooo that’s it? Trump has won re election?

Why?  I don't get this take.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

can a mod move this thread somewhere else? this has nothing to do with the 2020 election

[GeorgiaModerate]

can a mod move this thread somewhere else? this has nothing to do with the 2020 election

I disagree.  This could have a significant impact on the election.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Sooo that’s it? Trump has won re election?

Why?  I don't get this take.

Yeah. America is pro-choice. The person with the most to lose is Susan Collins.

[Holmes]

Oh  

[Stuart98]

Awful, awful news.

[woodley park]

RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg. What an incredible person.

I'm trying not to panic about what this means for 2020, as if the stakes weren't high enough.

[forza nocta]

Welp

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Welp

Congrats Donald Trump on two victories

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Jkjk I still think Biden will win

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Horrific news. Wow, I don't know what to say. RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This year has been atrocious.

[compucomp]

Sooo that’s it? Trump has won re election?

Why?  I don't get this take.

I think the idea is that any authoritarian actions Trump takes to re-elect himself (or declare himself winner) will not be overturned by the SC since he will replace RBG with someone who is loyal to him.

[MillennialModerate]

Yeah this is the ballgame I’m afraid.

[DrScholl]

If anything this will push up Democratic turnout. This could be the one thing that keeps up the sense of urgency that Democrats have.

[GeneralMacArthur]

The reason it helps Trump is because now right-wingers are going to be extremely motivated to turn out.  Roe v Wade is basically on the ballot now since once Trump confirms his nominee, the only way legal abortion can be saved is by the Democrats winning a trifecta and packing the court.

[Illiniwek]

RIP. Devastating.

Things are going to get even uglier now...

[Inmate Trump]

If there are any Never Hillary or Never Biden or Bernie Bros or what-have-you in this thread: this is all on you just as much as it's on any Trump voter.  At this point you're absolutely no different than Fuzzy Bear or any of the other deplorables in this country, including but not limited to David Duke.

[Progressive Pessimist]

FUUUUUUUJUUUUUUUUUUUJUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

I've been dreading this day for four years, and it finally happened.  Of course it would be in 2020!

Does the election even matter anymore? The right has won for an entire generation even if they lose these next four years in the White House. Get your coat-hangers ready.

This has officially ruined my year, not that it was a very good one to begin with.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Ginsberg didnt retire in 2014, she miscalculated and though Hillary, which her husband Bill, promised her to stay on, due to ensuring that Hillary was gonna be Prez


Citizens United is definitely not gonna be overturned, no more donations for me

[Middle-aged Europe]

Biden is F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D.

Take #854820325876094274985687263498579867327548794386579875979487598376987497.