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In reply to the discussion: Ginsburg calls out Roberts [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I think if Obama were as progressive as some had hoped, she probably would have retired by now if she had confidence that a good justice would be selected to replace her. Though she's tactful and honorable enough not to say this out loud in public, I think she might be hoping that someone like Warren gets elected in 2016 to make that selection, where she could retire then. I don't think Hillary will work any better than Obama, and she probably knows that. So things could change as primary season starts setting the stage for who's running later.
If Warren has a strong campaign to have Ginsberg feel more hopeful about her chances to win the nomination and the presidency later, then perhaps the rest of the Democratic Party, out of concern that a Republican gets elected and creates a worse situation for replacing Ginsberg, might have to sit down and negotiate with Warren to have her help Obama nominate Ginsberg's replacement in time enough or Obama to select her replacement before he leaves. Perhaps that might help alleviate Ginsberg (as well as the rest of "the left" of the Democratic Party, aka the majority of its grass roots constituents), to feel that a reasonable replacement might be found.
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