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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
Fri May 10, 2019, 06:00 PM May 2019

Imagine if Justice Breyer passes away in the next two years!

Wouldn't that be awful?

Why didn't he step down when Obama was president so that he could have been replaced with a liberal justice? But he insisted on hanging on and now he's in his 80s and he could die at any second and where would that leave us? Shame on him for being so selfish!



(I figured if we were going to beat up on Justice Ginsburg for not giving up HER seat a few years ago, we might as well give Justice Breyer the same treatment).

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Imagine if Justice Breyer passes away in the next two years! (Original Post) StarfishSaver May 2019 OP
K&R! mcar May 2019 #1
if trump wins, both of them will be replaced with gorsuches AlexSFCA May 2019 #2
Is Breyer battling cancer? Otherwise,I agree on both counts. Hassler May 2019 #3
Justice Ginsburg wasn't "battling cancer" during Obama's second term StarfishSaver May 2019 #5
Good Point! I think Kavanaugh could be the first member of SCOTUS... JoeOtterbein May 2019 #4
SC picks used to be less radical JustABozoOnThisBus May 2019 #6
What's good for the gander.... lunatica May 2019 #7

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
2. if trump wins, both of them will be replaced with gorsuches
Fri May 10, 2019, 06:02 PM
May 2019

and that’s dictatorship with no way back. All of these new handmaid laws on prosecuting women even for miscarriage will become reality.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
5. Justice Ginsburg wasn't "battling cancer" during Obama's second term
Fri May 10, 2019, 06:27 PM
May 2019

She's been in remission since then.

The cancer she was diagnosed with recently was a new occurrence unrelated to the breast cancer was diagnosed with and recovered from 10 years ago.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,338 posts)
6. SC picks used to be less radical
Fri May 10, 2019, 06:28 PM
May 2019

Now that it only takes 50 senate votes, the party in power can pass any radical choice. In the current environment, we can expect radical rightist judges.

Hopefully, Dems make gains in 2020, in the senate and white house.

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