Neoconfederates have a stranglehold on the Supreme Court because an elite Dem didn't know when to quit, and other elite Dems have seen this and apparently think it worked out great
Also, the guy who went out of his way to leave circuit court vacancies open for Donald Trump KNOWING that his facilitation of Republican obstruction would not be reciprocated is the precise opposite of "indispensable"
In RBG's case, her resistance to calls to retire was at least understandable if not ultimately defensible given the barriers she faced and what she accomplished. But for replacement-level generic white guys like Breyer and Leahy to pull the same shit is even worse
While we're here, Hugo Black's (failed) attempt to break Field's years-on-the-Court record led directly to the de facto overruling on Brown v. Board (and many other bad outcomes.) Breaking milestones is not actually a good reason for accepting huge downside risk!

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