When will America get its first atheist Supreme Court Justice?

[R.P. McM]

If Breyer chooses to retire under a second term Biden or Harris, he isn't going anywhere in the first term, but he will approach 90 in a second D term and the Senate lineup of Casey, Kaine, Baldwin and Stabenow secures the 278 blue wall

If this RBG fiasco hasn’t taught the Democrat Justices that they should just do what the Republican Justices do and retire when their party controls the presidency and/or Senate, then this will just be even more proof that old Democrats are incredibly out of touch

This would require the liberal justices seeing themselves as part of some larger ideological project (like a left-wing version of the Federalist Society, which doesn't really exist.)  Conservative jurists understand their role as fundamentally political while liberals value more mushy-gushy, virtue-signaling cultural stuff.   

Case in point:  "Notorious RBG" was a notorious loser, who got that name for her fiery dissents.  The most enduring aspect of her legacy will be Halloween costumes, bobblehead dolls, coffee mugs, children's books and t-shirts.  She is lionized not because of the policy results her rulings acheived, but because of how her (imagined) character as a sassy yass kween Jewish grandma smacking down bigoted Evangelicals and conservative Catholics resonates with American liberals.

I don't know about the "sassy Jewish grandma" part, but I'm struggling to disagree with anything else. Yeah, conservative judges are unable to separate their political preferences from their rulings, and RBG's legacy is ultimately one of dissent, hubris, and failure.