Ruth Ginsberg: a brilliant, liberal narcissist who thinks she's irreplaceable [View all]
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In a recent interview, she reiterated that she wants to stay on as long as her health holds out because, in her 80's, despite two bouts of cancer, she's still at the top of her game. She doesn't care that if a Republican President is elected in 2016, s/he will replace Ginsberg with a conservative and change the make-up of the court to 6-3 conservative.
Despite what Ginsbert thinks, she is not that special. Three more years of Ruth Ginsberg is NOT worth taking a chance on a 6-3 Court for 10 or 20 years.
If she wants to do some real good, she should resign in time for Obama to nominate her successor and WRITE. Put all her passion and knowledge into her writing. Explain to the country the direction the Court has been going and her views on where it should go. Expose the corporate stooges for what they are. And let Obama appoint another progressive to replace her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/us/court-is-one-of-most-activist-ginsburg-says-vowing-to-stay.html?_r=0
On Friday, she said repeatedly that the identity of the president who would appoint her replacement did not figure in her retirement planning.
“There will be a president after this one, and I’m hopeful that that president will be a fine president,” she said.
Were Mr. Obama to name Justice Ginsburg’s successor, it would presumably be a one-for-one liberal swap that would not alter the court’s ideological balance. But if a Republican president is elected in 2016 and gets to name her successor, the court would be fundamentally reshaped.
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Justice Ginsburg said her retirement calculations would center on her health and not on who would appoint her successor, even if that new justice could tilt the balance of the court and overturn some of the landmark women’s rights decisions that are a large part of her legacy.
“I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone,” she said. “I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.”
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