Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justices Should Stay If They're Able To Work

[Tx4obama]

12/17/13 02:22 PM ET EST AP

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justices Should Stay If They're Able To Work

RESTON, Va. (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Supreme Court justices should work as long as they can and shouldn't manipulate their retirement so a like-minded president can appoint their successor.

Some liberals have recently called on the 80-year-old Ginsburg to retire so that President Barack Obama can choose her replacement. If she stays beyond his term, it would leave open the possibility that a Republican would name the liberal justice's successor.

But Ginsburg, the oldest justice on the court, cited Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall on Tuesday as two liberal justices who left their replacement to Republican successor presidents. Ginsburg said she supposed many people wanted both men to leave when a Democrat was president, but she noted that neither did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court_n_4460255.html

[dsc]

1. and it was a huge ass mistake

Both should have retired when Carter was in office but didn't or failing that they should have held on until Clinton was in office.

[yeoman6987]

3. Ruth

Is she preparing us for the possibility that she is staying beyond 2017? It sorta sounds like that. I am pretty confident that we will have a Democratic President in 2016, but a Democratic Senate? Not as much. Which means that even if she leaves in 2020 with a Democratic President, we may not get a left progressive Supreme Judge to replace her. Of course all of this is hypothetical. Our best chances for a progressive replacement is between today and January 2015 quite frankly.

[polichick]

2. Good grief! Very selfish imo.

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