{"id":83061,"date":"2018-11-26T16:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83061"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:54:24","slug":"justice-ginsburg-retirement-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83061","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ginsburg Retirement Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg places some items in her bag before speaking at Georgetown Law School, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s retirement, truth or rumor?<\/span> You guys saw this played out over the course of the year. There was speculation during the summer as to whether Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was going to retire or not. Many, including the associate justice, dismissed the idea of her doing it soon.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. For those on the left, the urgency went up.<\/p>\n

President Trump already nominated Neil Gorsuch. He subsequently was confirmed. The Democrats were still sore over this process. “They were robbed” by a Republican-led Senate that didn’t entertain then President Obama’s last nomination for the vacancy.<\/p>\n

Despite Democrat insistence that someone get nominated soon, expeditiously, the Republicans held on in a bid to ensure that the Supreme Court continued to lean conservative. They had precedence, a Democrat led Senate did the same thing during a presidential election year<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Democrats settled for a “one on one” replacement. A conservative associate Justice for a conservative associate justice. Then, a retirement was announced. The swing vote was going to be replaced by someone nominated by President Trump.<\/p>\n

This gave those in the left incentive to tarnish a man’s reputation, and to derail the process in order to delay… When they hoped to have control of the Senate. A Democrat Senate would act as a speed bump to President Trump’s nominations that the left doesn’t like.<\/p>\n

They wanted a swing vote at worst, a liberal vote at best. You saw the resulting circus and drama in the Senate, the media, and in the court of public opinion. In the end, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed, strengthening the high court’s conservative leaning.<\/p>\n

Now, what many Democrats hope isn’t the case is becoming a likely scenario. From the Santa Monica Observer<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

She has told key Democratic members of the Senate about her medical condition, including ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee Dianne Feinstein. This explains in part the “take no prisoners” attitude of the Democrats during the Kavanaugh nomination, carefully orchestrating weak 37 year old allegations against Kavanaugh by Women he barely remembers knowing in High School and College.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post<\/span><\/strong> provides her desired target for retirement:<\/p>\n

Five years from now puts us in late July 2023. That could still be during Trump’s presidency, if he’s reelected in 2020. But Ginsburg doesn’t say only five years; she says “about at least five more years.” That sounds as if she’s shooting for 2024<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Santa Monica Observer puts that retirement date, based on conversation with law clerks, on January 2019. I haven’t found additional information corroborating the January 2019 retirement date.<\/p>\n

However, watching Justice Ginsburg’s current state reminds me of the late John Paul II, and the state he was in before he passed away. Given her health, here’s to wishing her well.<\/p>\n

You can read the details here<\/a><\/span> and over here<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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