WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.
She resisted calls by liberals to retire during Barack Obama’s presidency at a time when Democrats held the Senate and a replacement with similar views could have been confirmed. Instead, Trump will almost certainly try to push Ginsburg’s successor through the Republican-controlled Senate — and move the conservative court even more to the right.
She argued six key cases before the court in the 1970s when she was an architect of the women’s rights movement. She won five. In addition, she questioned the quality of lawyers for poor accused murderers. In the most divisive of cases, including the Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, she was often at odds with the court’s more conservative members — initially Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
When Scalia died in 2016, also an election year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to act on Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the opening. The seat remained vacant until after Trump’s surprising presidential victory. McConnell has said he would move to confirm a Trump nominee if there were a vacancy this year.
She wrote memorably in 2013 that the court’s decision to cut out a key part of the federal law that had ensured the voting rights of Black people, Hispanics and other minorities was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
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The President will fill the seat as he should given that there will be a extremely important case in front of the Supreme Court regarding upcoming election!! holddemsaccountable
2020 is a $hotshot. Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.'
Replace her today 👍
Don't trust any of them
I say we protest for it to stay empty till we get our president back! Tikkun Olam!
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AidanRGallagher Did y’all feel the earthquake
AidanRGallagher Cancer . Remembering my aunt died 6 years ago yesterday from cancer too
Replacement now
We all know that nonsense lame duck rule that Mitch McConnell applied to Obama isn’t going to be applied to Trump.
They should honor the wishes of the dead
Hey Trump the right thing to do is renominate Merrill Garland.
DadaLives It’s going to be a GOP pick either way. But if the Democrats play this right, they can actually use this to bolster Biden’s election in November. Make Trump try to push someone through in the time between the election & Biden’s inauguration. That will play very well for Democrats
Trump just won this election .
It is President Tump's call. He is the current President.
The passing of another of life’s beauties. America’s hero’s are dying. Where will the power come from now? Pick up the torch young people of the USA and save your country. Your generation is needed now, young or not, to step up and be heroic NOW. March, March and Vote!!!
Democrats would be partying and saying the nastiest things if it was Brett Kavonough who died and would definitely replace ASAP!!
Supreme Court justices are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as stated in the Constitution.
It is time for all women voters to protect their rights under the US Constitution from being assaulted in this country. Women have gained more equal rights until now. This election will be transformative for women’s rights.
It would be the same standard when Justice Scalia died.
There isn’t time and Collins, Murkowski and Romney would never go for it.
If it isn't Merrick Garland, then it should wait until the election is decided.
He is in effect running a caretaker government and also is an about to be convicted criminal for tax fraud and mass murderer ,etc. and as such should not be allowed to make any seriously important decisions.
It’s done; bravo to the architect
Trump has every right to fill the vacancy. Immediately.
No time like the present to fill the seat. No need to wait. Next President doesn’t take office until the end of January next year so no need to wait. Fill it now while the seat is still warm!
Why is this even a question? Obama wasn't allowed to do it so why should they? Have they no morals?
Our democratically elected officials, Trump and McConnell, need to fill this vacancy immediately. Dems would do exactly the same.
If Obama could not appoint a judge with 11 months before an election, Trump should not be allowed to with 2 months before an election. If the Republicans try it, it will finally prove they are amoral and unamerican. The world is watching America!
❤️❤️❤️ RBG Game changer
It’s their job to replace her. It’s not their job to delay. The only reason people want him to wait is so they can get their way in case he loses. Well....right now he’s president, so he MUST do his job! realDonaldTrump GOP
Ladies... Vote like your rights depends on it because they do.
Trump only cares for corporations and foreigners. He is a globalist. His pick will not represent American citizens.
Most selfish American ever? She should have retired 5 years ago (or more)
Gosh, who do you think is going to start a battle? Trump isn’t a lame duck- he’s running. They’ll get it done as they should.
Any Democrat claiming they wouldn’t jump this opportunity are disingenuous liars.
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Democrats just lost the balance of the SCOTUS. Anyone who pretends this won't pour napalm into the raging psyche of the radical Resistance is fully asleep.
Trump must fill the seat immediately
Could we, just this once, bury her in peace before jumping into the political slime? Regardless of your personal politics, she is yet another unique American who gave their all for this country, and we should take a breath, join together, and honor that. RIP Justice Ginsberg.
realDonaldTrump can’t even honor fallen soldiers. And MoscowMitch just pushed through the appointments of six Trump judges in 30 hours. RIPRBG
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), pointed to a 'standard practice over the last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year.' February 15, 2016
Chief Justice John Roberts mourned Ginsburg’s passing. 'Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague.'
Less battle over whether they should, more they are going to do their damndest to push through a replacement no matter at what cost.
The hypocrisy of Mitch McConnell and senate republicans is about to come through like a basted Thanksgiving Day turkey.
what is biden's supreme list - his voters have a right to know
Either way it will be Trump's choice!
Whatever Putin wants. Isn't that right, Trump CULT members
So sad, like the focus is on her empty seat. A force of our times has left us to argue over who sits where she sat.
Obviously, applying McConnel’s standard, there should NOT be a nomination/hearing before the election.
4 Republican senators can stop rbg seat from being filled until the election is over
May other Republican Senators follow suit.
RIP. She was an advocate for many positive change and she dissented against Citizens United. That being said, I think us progressives have one less reason to vote Biden now. He was never for us. He's just as corrupt as Trump is. On student loans, Biden is worse. Vote Green.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” — Mitch McConnell, March 2016.
Seat should remain vacant. May she rest in peace.
Turn on Fox. Nothing but false pity for the death of RGB. All they are talking about us who and how they will replace her. Absolutely sickening!
McConnell set the precedent himself for no replacement till the election is decided.
senatemajldr said no heari gs during an election year. But he's a liar, and he'll change the rules again.
senatemajldr You passed the rule of no court replacements during an election year! You screwed President Obama... the rule applies to Trump! SupremeCourt
He will do everything in his crooked power to replace her with yet another one of his crooked cronies. America the dictatorship.
Do it now. Why wait?
shame on y’all for not even alluding to what Mitch McConnell did in 2016 with Merrick Garland
That was the argument McConnell made to block Erick Garland. If he changes his tune his hypocrisy will be laid bare. I don’t think he cares though. He has no ethics.
This is the last thing on our presidents mine right now
Ladies...it’s time to fight for rights 💪
R.i.p....u know more corruption coming from trump soon...
BS Harry made that bed it goes forward
NO! The Republicans set this precedent. Since they seem to know everything let's follow it. Democrats....get your act together!
gee I wonder what 45 is going to do
McConnell already set the precedent in 2016. It stays open. Next?
As if playing by the rules would get you a Nazi on the SC
We know what should happen, and we know what the republicans will do. They will not pass up a chance to take power, they have to be forcibly stopped.
2020 remains the biggest wild card of our lives.
you know fucking Trump will try to push through another justice
It doesn’t matter cause Trump will win either way
'I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg RIP. RBG
Vacant until race is decided. We follow Mcconnell
What is the shortest amount of time between the death of a SCOTUS member and the confirmation of a replacement?
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