Rip rbg

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Chicks

My Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

President Barack Obama

Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But because she was a woman, she was rejected. Ten years later, she sent her first brief to the Supreme Court — which led it to strike down a state law based on gender discrimination for the first time. And then, for nearly three decades, as the second woman ever to sit on the highest court in the land, she was a warrior for gender equality — someone who believed that equal justice under law only had meaning if it applied to every single American.

Over a long career on both sides of the bench — as a relentless litigator and an incisive jurist — Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are — and who we can be.

Justice Ginsburg inspired the generations who followed her, from the tiniest trick-or-treaters to law students burning the midnight oil to the most powerful leaders in the land. Michelle and I admired her greatly, we’re profoundly thankful for the legacy she left this country, and we offer our gratitude and our condolences to her children and grandchildren tonight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored.

Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in.

A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming years — with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures — are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.

Honest?

You can't just leave a link?
You have to spam the thread?

[NipperDog]

RIP RPG.

I so wish you could have held on for a couple of months longer.

Hours after the news, McConnell announced that they'd be filling the void before the election. He didn't even have the class to wait until after the weekend. What a vulture.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by NipperDog

RIP RPG.

I so wish you could have held on for a couple of months longer.

Hours after the news, McConnell announced that they'd be filling the void before the election. He didn't even have the class to wait until after the weekend. What a vulture.

Quite the opposite from what Moscow Mitch & The Repukes were saying at the end of president Obama's last term.
Hypocrites all.

[donquixote99]

Filling the spot may hurt them in the election, some, with some people, but the election looks kind of chancey anyway, and if they fill the spot, they've got it!

Need three fair-play Republicans. Doubt we'll get them.

[Oerets]

Definitely a lame duck appointment if T looses or the Senate changes hands!

[Chicks]

“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.”

-- Moscow Mitch, 2016

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Chicks

“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.”

-- Moscow Mitch, 2016

Really, just when has a republican had any shame?

""Definition of hypocrite""

1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings


One more reason to believe the republicans will and do anything to get what they want. Lie cheat steal ........

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Really, just when has a republican had any shame?

""Definition of hypocrite""

1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

3 : a person who holds a leadership position in the Republican party.

Now you're done.

[Chicks]

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Music is the one time when my head isn't filled with briefs and opinions. All that is put on a shelf, and I just... enjoy."

https://www.facebook.com/KennedyCent...43181169194309

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Honest?

You can't just leave a link?
You have to spam the thread?

You just did just that instead of linking the post, and it is worth posting the full text as it is very much on subject.