x Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life is a legacy beyond her historic time on the bench. Because of her, young girls everywhere now know within them is their own world-changing power. pic.twitter.com/u6oyicOzr0 — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 21, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”>
Category: RuthBaderGinsburg
SCOTUS hopefuls Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton can't see the hypocrisy in seating a judge in election year
What are these assholes even talking about? Now, I knew they’d be pricks about this regardless, but isn’t a little convenient that they’re both on Donald Trump’s SCOTUS nominee short list? First, Wolfman Jack’s colicky vestigial twin: x “We can play that game all day long” — Ted Cruz dismisses George Stephanopoulos pointing out the…
Schumer: 'Nothing is off the table' if Republicans ram through SCOTUS nominee before election
Now that’s what I like to hear. On a scale of 1 to “Donald Trump got shorted a McNugget in his lunch order,” the palpable rage is at about a 9 right now. And rising. But this may settle my humors some. Politico: During a Democratic Caucus call Saturday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told…
Obama remembers RBG, calls out GOP on blatant SCOTUS hypocrisy
President Obama has weighed in on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation battle that’s sure to ensue. Here’s his statement in its entirety: 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…
David Frum: Don't assume McConnell has the votes to confirm
Last night and this morning, I felt like crawling into a hole for the next 40 days or so. And not a deep hole. I didn’t have the energy or joie de vivre for a deep hole. It would have been a shallow hole. Barely a hole at all. Really, I would have just lay…
RBG has passed away at 87
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died of complications from cancer. In a statement dictated to her granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death, she said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.” x WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court says Justice Ruth…
GOP Congressman makes tasteless joke about sexual assault, because that's who Republicans are now
Oh, hell no. From The Washington Post: In his opening statements at an election debate Thursday, a South Carolina congressman kicked things off with a joke. “Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news on the Kavanaugh hearings?” Rep. Ralph Norman (R) asked the audience at a Kiwanis club in his district. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out saying she was…
