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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Among other things, it's considerably more insulting to assert that justices make literally life-and-death decisions about when to retire based on spiteful reactions to op-eds than it is to write op-eds urging them to retire
Incidentally, it's become a widely-accepted truism that RBG didn't retire because of the "Notorious RBG" wave, but the timeline just doesn't add up. It was a reaction to her dissent in Shelby County, and she had already told Leahy months before she wasn't going to retire
Not retiring at the end of the 2013 term was a very bad decision, but it was almost certainly one she made for her own complicated reasons, not because of her late-in-life prominence in pop culture
Nobody ever made a movie about William Rehnquist, but he still didn't retire in 2003 despite being in awful health for years. It's just that nobody talks about it because the 120,000 votes in the Midwest happened to land in his party's favor

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