The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Left Now Will Pay Price for Turning
Courts into Political Battlefield
American Spectator,
by
Doug Bandow
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/20/2020 4:39:21 AM
As news of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg spread, the left-wing twittersphere exploded. Ginsburg was widely seen as single-handedly holding back the blood-thirsty reactionary Trump-crazy hordes. The Independent’s Holly Baxter lamented: “Sometimes it felt like she was America’s last hope.” Ginsburg’s passing loosed fear, frustration, anger, and defiance among the liberal legions.
The politics of her replacement immediately dominated their thoughts. Many cited as holy doctrine her comment, reported by her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Others insisted that if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/20/2020 6:53:50 AM (No. 546294)
Why should we believe that the sacred comment was even made? Would democrats lie?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/20/2020 7:06:27 AM (No. 546299)
Death bed wishes do not trump the Constitution. This is just another tactic of the left to influence the weak minded among us. Their argument is based on pure emotion and has nothing to do with the duty the President has to put for a nominee when one becomes vacant. President Trump will do his duty. By the way, all you contrarian Republicans should get in line. Your oath commands you to protect and defend the Constitution. Your self-serving sanctimony is misplaced. Your duty is to vote on the nominee the President puts forth. Do your job. It’s what we the people pay you to do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
former lurker 9/20/2020 7:11:58 AM (No. 546302)
Bad advice. Trump’s nominee must be confirmed immediately. Delaying until after the election will only give the democrats more motivation to go dirty, low and criminal in their quest for the White House. If trump loses the Republicans will surely lose the senate.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 9/20/2020 7:17:34 AM (No. 546308)
Who leaves their government job in their will? Only sick drugged up people who were incapable of even doing the job for years and only kept it so that someone else couldn't get it. This comes off as a woman of integrity by those with very poor touch with reality.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 9/20/2020 7:22:35 AM (No. 546317)
I submit the infamous quote from ValJar.
"After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/20/2020 7:39:45 AM (No. 546332)
...And even if she did say it. To quote an infamous 'Ex President' (Democrats have many) What difference does it make at this point! It simply shows their desperation Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/20/2020 7:48:17 AM (No. 546341)
#5, my experience was that the patient not only couldn’t speak but was in a coma for the last 10 days. That “deathbed wish” was written by the same staffers who have been doing Ruthie’s job for her for the last 5 years. Remember, it was just a couple of months ago that they announced that she was “cancer free”.
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Who was in charge of driving the stake through her heart?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
nina584 9/20/2020 8:10:13 AM (No. 546364)
As long as Roberts is the deciding vote there is danger. Needs to be done before the election.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/20/2020 8:13:40 AM (No. 546371)
The Supreme Corpse is now Ruth-less. Keep it that way. Stop replacing federal judges.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 9/20/2020 8:22:37 AM (No. 546376)
When this seat is filled, if there is ONE demoncrat or any political sect under them...progrrssive, liberal, socialist etc, still breathing....
THEY DID NOT PAY A HIGH ENOUGH PRICE!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Catfur27 9/20/2020 8:50:10 AM (No. 546402)
....I love the smell of dem heads exploding in the morning...it smells like...victory.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/20/2020 8:53:06 AM (No. 546406)
I don't believe there was a death bed wish by Ginsberg. The left lie to us and even tell themselves lies. This is made up for consumption by stupid or scared people and Republicans like Collins.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fairplay 9/20/2020 8:59:28 AM (No. 546415)
Elizabeth Warren was on the Supreme Court steps shouting Trump is going to Ram through a New Judge before election day.
Well, that's pay-back for Nancy Pelosi Ramming through Impeachment against President Trump!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/20/2020 9:48:25 AM (No. 546457)
What we have here is the President having weaponized Ginsberg's replacement to his liking. He has succeeded in jacking up the left beyond comprehension. He has a permanent lead over the dims and msm this time. And he will maintain that lead by putting a top rate juris doctor out for nomination and confirmation. And more importantly, he has pulled some of the pubbie cowards out into the open where they can't hide any longer and have to be either all-in for the President or be banished from politics forever.
This death bed "instruction" from Ginsberg is a joke. I refer to #1, #5, and #8 comments. Obie is telling another one of his little fibs here in claiming there was an "instruction" which of course is not relevant.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/20/2020 9:51:50 AM (No. 546461)
It's so refreshing to hear reports of Democrat whose last words weren't, "I can't breath."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Peregrine 9/20/2020 9:55:24 AM (No. 546466)
If RBG was so concerned about her replacement she should have retired while Obama was president. She would have been able to have input into who her replacement would be.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/20/2020 10:01:48 AM (No. 546471)
Article III Section 4 of the Constitution specifically states that the dying wishes of a SCOTUS judge must be observed!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 9/20/2020 10:13:54 AM (No. 546484)
The court got very liberal in the first place by Republicans trying to appease liberals with their judges. Some of Nixon's appointments proved to be a disaster. Ford's chose John Paul Stevens, a nominal Republican who quickly became one of the most liberal members in history. It' time to correct some old mistakes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
starboard 9/20/2020 10:21:05 AM (No. 546489)
RBG was another Democrat who counted on Hillary getting elected in 2016. She would retire and Hillary would get to appoint her successor, another feminist. Isn't it sweet how things worked out. It was first the death of Scalia, then Kennedy retired, and now number 3, Ginsburg, passed during President Trump's 1st term ... all on President Trump's watch. Wow! Three nominations to the SC what a lucky guy. No such luck..!! After the campaign spying, the Russian collusion and the falsely charged impeachment, call it what you will. However, it's quite clear that the past four years demonstrates the divine hand of God moving the chess pieces with President Trump and his administration to protect this country from the evil that abounds. It's time to support President Trump as much as possible and those Republicans who don't will pay the price.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 9/20/2020 11:11:16 AM (No. 546542)
A) There was no deathbed wish; B) It would not matter one bit if there was, RBG gets zero say in who replaces her or when; C) RBG’s seat has been effectively empty for several years now, it should have been filled in 2018.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 9/20/2020 11:49:34 AM (No. 546598)
"Elections have consequences." - Barack Obama.
Suggest the dumbocrats play by the rules...which state that Trump is required to nominate RBG's replacement. The rules nowhere stipulate that his nominee can only hold the uber-left, Constitution-killing ideology of the justice being replaced.
In fact, the one key requirement of any nominee is that they can honestly and sincerely take their oath of office, which requires that they support the Constitution, as written....not as they wish it were written. From that perspective, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Roberts should all be impeached and kicked off the bench immediately for violating that oath.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
gramma b 9/20/2020 11:54:05 AM (No. 546606)
If RBG made that comment it proves only that she was inappropriately political until her last breath.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 9/20/2020 11:59:08 AM (No. 546611)
Totally agree with main point of article....the Left weaponized the SCOTUS, and elections have consequences. They had eight years under Obama to force RBG to retire, knowing full well she had cancer...they deserve whoever replaces her, and have no basis to complain....none.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
pensom2 9/20/2020 11:59:45 AM (No. 546612)
#3 said, "If trump loses the Republicans will surely lose the senate."
That's probably true. But there's no guarantee that if Trump wins, the Republicans will surely retain the Senate. If the Republicans lose their Senate majority (such as it is--with Murkowski, Collins, + Romney), Trump won't be able to obtain confirmation of any conservative SCOTUS nominee.
From this perspective, it would be better to hold confirmation hearings before the election, and vote the nominee up or down after the election, in late November or early December. The wild card is that if the Pennsylvania election goes haywire and the Supreme Court has to intervene to halt the dems' counting of harvested and questionable ballots, an eight-justice SCOTUS with Roberts as the swing vote portends little confidence in a fair outcome.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/20/2020 12:33:37 PM (No. 546667)
Everything is on the line.
Name Amy Barrett. Put her up in front of the Judiciary Committee, get a vote, and send it to the Senate. Do it NOW. Get a Senate vote in the next few weeks, and keep the traitors on their heels.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/20/2020 12:39:41 PM (No. 546684)
I don't know if ginsburg uttered those dying words.... but.... chances are it's another attempt at chancing history... so WE take it with a grain of salt... and ... ponder what God had in mind when He chose to call her home...at this important time....hmmmm?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/20/2020 1:29:41 PM (No. 546756)
I told a cousin yesterday that in 2016, Biden and Durbin got hoisted on their own petards. That was delicious to watch, but the end result was that one conservative was replaced by another. This is a horse of a different color, replacing the court's most extreme liberal with a conservative. This will tilt the court to the Right for years to come. And as i posted yesterday, it will also nullify Roberts' wishy-washy tendencies. Senate Republicans would be fools not to take advantage of their golden opportunity, but sadly there a handful of them that are that foolish.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Mike6 9/20/2020 1:30:15 PM (No. 546757)
RBG was a not even a good lawyer or a decent, fair minded judge.
She was a Hillary Democrat, and maybe even a Lenin Bolshevik.
I would have not let her walk my dog!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Fat Elvis 9/20/2020 1:54:48 PM (No. 546772)
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” --Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ginsburg's language reveals a great deal regarding her ideology.
Presidents are ELECTED.
Dictators and strongmen are INSTALLED.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
karo 9/20/2020 2:10:18 PM (No. 546778)
How sad, really. I hope my final words are something like "I love you all, my beautiful family and friends. I am ready to meet Jesus," not some political claptrap!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/20/2020 4:34:31 PM (No. 546882)
Ginsburg mainly helped feminists for years. That did not take much intelligence or legal knowledge. She had female genetalia so she advanced the fortunes of females. BFD. Regardless of that, she has been nothing but a placeholder for four years by barely keeping her eyes open. The democrats let themselves settle into a comfortable position and got burned. Live with it you dolts. This on top of investing billions of dollars in damage to the country is just another dim failure to look further ahead than the ends of their noses.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Mike6 9/20/2020 6:55:07 PM (No. 547001)
RBG was not a Christian.
She was a disgusting feminist and a Lenin Bolshevik.
Lenin organized his evil DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.
He send millions to freezing Gulags in the Arctic Circle.
If commie Biden, Harris, Obama and Hillary get elected will they send millions of Deplorables to
re-education camps in the Mohave desert.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/20/2020 6:56:28 PM (No. 547004)
Anything that weakens the federal judiciary is an opportunity to restore the Constitution and limited government. If the President loses it won't matter a bit who is on the Supreme Clowns because they will be replacing the most rabid America-hater ever to be on the Court - a dead ACLU lawyer. My advice would be - keep your powder dry, avoid the temptation to poke a sharp stick in their eyes, don't announce anyone, don't give then a target to smear, at least until after November, and then perhaps well into the 2nd term if he wins. Let the Democrats set a few more of their cities on fire, let them #BurnLootMurder, give them plenty of rope to hang themselves. Stay cool.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
subal 9/20/2020 10:34:51 PM (No. 547171)
This death bed "instruction" from Ginsberg was supposedly given several days prior to her death to her granddaughter, a civil rights lawyer!
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