Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

The famously liberal justice lost her fight to live long enough to keep Trump from appointing her replacement.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at age 87 from complications of cancer.

In a statement dictated to her granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death, she said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

....In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Ruth to the U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She served there until June 14, 1993, when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Aug. 10, 1993, Ruth took her seat as the second women to serve on the Supreme Court. Since then she’s overseen countless cases and wrote the court’s landmark decision in United States v. Virginia, which held that the state-run Virginia Military Institute could not refuse admission to women.

She also chose to use the phrase “I dissent,” rather than “I respectfully dissent” because she felt it was an unnecessary nicety. Her outspokenness and occasional crudeness, especially during the Obama administration, soon inspired her nickname, Notorious R.B.G., which is a play on rapper Notorious B.I.G.

In 1999, Ruth won the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for her contributions to gender equality law.

On June 27, 2010, Martin died of cancer. The couple were married for 56 years. The day after her husband’s death, she went back to work at the court because she said it’s what he would have wanted.

In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, Ginsburg criticized then presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president,” she said.

Her unusual and supposedly unethical remarks received negative comments from politicians, judges, and other critics, saying she was showing bias when she is supposed to be an impartial justice. Ginsburg later apologized for her comments.

Over the course of her time on the court, Ginsburg has had health scares. She’s fought colorectal cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009, and received a heart stent in her right coronary artery.

Her latest scares were in 2018, when she was hospitalized for fracturing three ribs which in turn led to doctors finding malignant nodules in her left lung. She underwent surgery to have them removed.

Despite those health problems, Ginsburg worked out regularly with a strict routine and never missed a day of oral argument.

The 2018 movie, “On the Basis of Sex,” focused on her life before she became a justice.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Ruth rolled the dice and came up snake-eyes. She could have easily retired at any time before Obama's final term closed out allowing him to place another liberal justice in her place. But....she didn't. Her sense of self-importance and refusal to accept her mortality in spite of several bouts of cancer.

I suspect that there will be a push (of course) to replace her before the election which will surely fail. The stakes now could not be higher given the life term of a Supreme Court Judge.

Which way the court tips is now at stake. An example is Chief Justice Roberts who has shown himself to be one that wants to create legislation rather than to interpret it as a Supreme Court Justice should do. One is either an Umpire or a Player...John Roberts wants to be both. It will be interesting to see who and how the replacement fits the existing bench.

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

your comments are incisive and well-informed.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Besides "On the Basis of Sex" there is also a great documentary on her, "RBG". It seems amazing now that when she graduated from law school in 1959 the big NYC law firms were just not hiring any women attorneys.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

Ruth will get her most fervent wish when Trump takes office in January 2021.

Vietnam Vet

The libs are going to go ballistic over it

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

The documentary "RBG" is airing on CNN tonight.

pendennis

Roberts has seen himself as the next "Kennedy" on the bench. It's not a very good reputation, and it gives the appearance of waffling on issues, and looking for confirmation of opinion. He did very badly on the Obama care case, finding there was a "tax" when none existed, and Obama's Solicitor General didn't even try to argue the point, and he couldn't find a single conservative justice to side with him.

If the President wants to keep the seat for a female justice, there are any number of deserving conservative women judges for it. The name that seems to have the most exposure is Amy Coney Barrett. I noticed that the far left Alliance For Justice and others of the same ilk, seem to disparage her the most.

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

Lindsey G on SCOTUS nominees in the last year of a Presidential term.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-09-18/lindsey-graham-in-2018-senate-wont-vote-on-scotus-pick-in-last-year-of-trump-term

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traderjohn Loc: New York City

One mans belief. If it were the Democratic Party. Would you feel the same??

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

Do you not remember what happened between Obama's last nominee and Moscow Mitch?

Tex-s

I'm of the opinion that the GOP looking to appoint a replacement now could win them a battle and lose them the war. I would advise the President to make the open seat a campaign issue and to put his top two or three names out there and demand Joe Biden do so. The start differences between nominees, the stark difference in the litmus testing of said nominees, and the fact it will take Biden's handlers a week or more to cough up a list, in my view, could only help Trump's chances.

National Park

Federal prisons have offices?

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

National Park, I'm putting you on my November ha-ha list.