The Justice was in and out of hospital for months. The idea that she was “here” on recent cases is a farce and there was literally no calls for her to hang up the robe to let the process work. She hung in there hoping for a favorable election outcome this November. It’s indeed
her right to have done this, but it’s the responsibility of news media to hold government accountable; all members of all branches of government. This did not happen. Instead we got puff pieces as to how great her mind is.
I am not sure how RBG’s alleged “last wish” has any bearing on the #FillTheSeat debate. It’s not her seat and she could have left a few years back when Obama was around.
“Between 1971 and O’Connor’s retirement in 2006, the average age at which justices left the court—either through death or retirement—was 78.7 years old. Only one died while in office: William Rehnquist on September 3, 2005. He was 81.” ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Wil…
RBG was 87 years.
She was full of her self thinking that only she knows how to hand out perfect rulings so she hung in there instead of retiring when Obama was around. Had she done that at age 80 (in 2013), Obama and a Dem Senate would have filled the seat. She was also a political partisan:
She did not expect that Republicans will win the Senate in 2014 or the White House in 2016. Her alleged dying wish (“not be replaced until a new president is installed”) assumed that Biden will win. Those are all political calculations; not the well-being of the court or country.
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