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Originally posted by Zecpull:
As Bad as she is.. she actually came out last week saying she is disappointed in the blatant partisanship shown in the senate hearings. That it should not be that way.

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The fact that she doesn't recognize her own hypocrisy on this topic is yet another indicator that she is long past being fit for the job.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Just to inject a bit of a different perspective, RBG's arrogance and ego did all of us a favor, in that she could have retired and been replaced by Barry Obama. Instead, she decided she was far too important to retire then, opted to play the Hillary lotto, and lost.

I'd imagine most of her focus now is spent just trying to hang on long enough to prevent Trump from replacing her with someone who will render her tenure on the court irrelevant.

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Originally posted by SIG228:
I don't think she'll make it the next six years President Trump is in office....

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

There were 153 opinions last term, including concurrences and dissents. RGB wrote 15 times.

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If she kicked this weekend, man, that would be fantastic.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Hopefully, she doen't make it the next six minutes.

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Originally posted by jimb888:
Any truth to the rumor that RBG was groped by Abraham Lincoln?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
There might be a little more snap to it if it happens just after Kavanaugh is confirmed. There's nothing like hitting someone with a tidal wave when they're exhausted and demoralized.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
There might be a little more snap to it if it happens just after Kavanaugh is confirmed. There's nothing like hitting someone with a tidal wave when they're exhausted and demoralized.

Oh yeah, I think the perfect timing would be when they announce the confirmation of Kavanaugh. Imagine; the protesters out in full force, yelling and screaming, the media in a hysterical hissy fit, and then the other shoe drops.

The reaction would rival the 2016 Election night

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I can dream, can't I? If she kicked this weekend, man, that would be fantastic. The commies would lose their shit all the way. All the way. They'd be chewing off their own limbs and speaking in tongues (in-between bites, that is).

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. If the supposedly most scholarly and knowledgeable legal minds the country regularly end up with SC decisions being 5-4 splits, may as well just flip a coin on a best two out of three basis.


Think of all the money we could save...

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Originally posted by c1steve:

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. If the supposedly most scholarly and knowledgeable legal minds the country regularly end up with SC decisions being 5-4 splits, may as well just flip a coin on a best two out of three basis.


Think of all the money we could save...

Four of them vote the way they want things to be, have little regard for printed laws, so they are not using their scholarly minds.

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Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s announcement Wednesday that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court led to justifiable hand-wringing about his crucial role as the swing vote in 5-to-4 decisions. But while 5-to-4 decisions — including the Tuesday blockbuster upholding President Trump’s travel ban — draw deserved attention, they obscure an important truth: The court values consensus, and justices agree far more often than they disagree.

The ratio is staggering. According to the Supreme Court Database, since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-2 or 8-to-1 judgments making up about 15 percent of decisions. The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases.

And the court’s commitment to consensus does not appear to be slowing. In the 2016-17 term, 57 percent of decisions were unanimous, and judgments with slim majorities (5 to 3 or 5 to 4) accounted for 14 percent. This term shows a similar trend. Surprisingly firm majorities issued some of the most anticipated decisions. In Masterpiece Cakeshop — the case concerning a baker’s refusal to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple — the court issued a rather narrow ruling on the substance, but it drew seven of the nine justices’ votes. In Gill v. Whitford, the court unanimously agreed that a group of Wisconsin voters did not have standing to challenge their state’s legislative map, and seven justices concurred that the voters could take their case back to district court and try again.


Even some closer cases were not split along the expected lines. In Carpenter v. U.S., Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the more liberal justices to hold that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching old cellphone records. And Justice Neil M. Gorsuch did the same when he joined the 5-to-4 decision in Sessions v. Dimaya, which held that a federal law that made deportation mandatory for a certain group of immigrants was unconstitutionally vague.