U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

yeah that

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Born in 1933 ffs

fuck everything

i am housesitting for a friend this weekend, just shy of 4 years to the day of another time I housesat for him, just under a month before the election, and I remember being in a state of zen then, feeling fairly assured of future events, that just makes me sad to remember now.

i'll never understand why she didn't retire when she was 80

her husband died in 2010, when she would have been 77 or 78. after his death, her work was what she lived for and she was a highly effective justice all through her final years. she probably pulled Roberts into new ways of thinking about the court and sometimes won unexpected support in particular cases. but not retiring when Obama could name her successor was a strategic error in terms of safeguarding the issues she most cared about.

It would be great if this country was motivated to end lifetime appointments.

xp yeah, as i said, i'll never understand. but thanks for trying.

I have difficult feelings about her. I had some admiration for her but it was overwhelmed by the disdain I have for the whole institution and the very idea that lone “great jurists” should be deciding questions such as whether unions can require their members to pay dues or whether a state can ban abortions. To the extent the Court was a force for good at all it was short lived compared to the courts overall reactionary history, and she was sort of a remnant of that period. Her “greatness” was constructed by a shitty system, even though she was a silver lining. And of course not retiring under Obama strikes me as a vain decision.

She was no progressive icon, and her failure to retire 10 years ago was a tragedy

are SCOTUS justices *supposed* to be progressive icons?

Today, we’re all Robert Bork

Ginsburg has become venerated as one in the last few years, for reasons I don’t really understand

Lifetime appointments are worse than the cancer which killed her

"She was no progressive icon"

no

"Her “greatness” was constructed by a shitty system, even though she was a silver lining"

yes, she was a silver lining

oh cool, more posts to flag from non-US posters who think they have anything close to a fucking clue

I was born in the States. We DO read about you guys up here, too

You’re going to flag this, too?

yup! fuck off.

Enjoy yours, motherfucker :)

nothing worse than a postgame armchair quarterback, any point you might have is irrelevant now.

What’s up with the smug Canadians lately? Jesus.

I’m a US poster and a practicing lawyer

The point is not merely Monday morning quarterbacking. The point is that liberal individualistic veneration of these justices is about as helpful to democracy as praying to Jobu and possibly even counterproductive.

US poster here, involved in program management. I’m 37

I don't think 'not retiring under Obama' was a vain decision, it was just a decision

as a 39 year old Business Instructor in an HR outsourcing firm, I am uniquely qualified to tackle this topic

The point is not merely Monday morning quarterbacking. The point is that liberal individualistic veneration of these justices is about as helpful to democracy as praying to Jobu and possibly even counterproductive.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, September 18, 2020 10:11 PM bookmarkflaglink

i don't think that was beamish's point so much when she also went into the RIP RBG thread to say this exact shit

it was a decision with huge consequences, which she was beyond smart enough to understand, but it's too late now. at my old job (lawyer) two women had at least 20 pieces of horrible "notorious RBG" paraphernalia decorating each of their offices and that kind of shit always bothered me but i never told them any hot takes about RBG, i just wish people were not like that.

fun times:

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman showed up to the Supreme Court and got mobbed after saying Roe v. Wade is “dead” and the Supreme Court will soon get a new justice. pic.twitter.com/KkeQZj5L4T

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 19, 2020

as a 39 year old Business Instructor in an HR outsourcing firm, I am uniquely qualified to tackle this topic

― origami condom (Neanderthal)

wait were you the one that replied to me AS Max Linn?!
#onethread

your job description reminds me of will ferrell's I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS snl skit

lol sorry neanderthal, i thought you were mirroring my recent disqusion on the comments at the bottom of this: https://www.blacklivesmatternationalservice.com/

which, if you haven't been #onethreading, is a really bizarre and obviously fake campaign by the long-shot independent candidate Max Linn in the Maine senatorial race, which most observers believe to be primarily a contest between susan collins and sarah gideon

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sorry about it eric

Not to get all maudlin, but let's all try and be good to each other till November.

More like Ruth Later Gonesburg.

let's just try to be good to each other period yo

We should close this thread.

it ain't helping

the "America is broken and we're hurting" love-in thread

Seriously, I got married yesterday because in part of this justice. It's filled with the brutal irony that is characteristic of this shitty, exciting year.

Well, to be totally fair, Minnesota was already clear before that decision. But print the legend.

congratulations, Eric!

co-sign. congrats, Eric :)

Congrats Eric! Thank you for sharing this happy news on an otherwise bummer day. May you bring each other joy for decades to come!

Congrats!

congrats Eric! that really is the best way to celebrate her life and accomplishments. sorry to bring it up in a bad way, but i'm happy all the same

Somehow I saw this thread had a bunch of new answers before I saw the news or noticed the RGB RIP thread, but I had a gut feeling it meant she had passed — maybe partly because I remembered recently seeing the headline that Trump had a shortlist of 20 new appointees to the court. I hope the consequences don't turn out as dire as they seem.

Congrats to Eric, whose horror film poll I remember with great fondness. Hope your chosen one shares that passion.

What’s up with the smug Canadians lately? Jesus.

was wondering why I got a notification email

"avenge my FP"

also one more round of congrats to Eric <3

Another congratulations! to Eric plus sad condolences from this non-smug Canadian