On FB one of my friends said the need to defeat the GOP in 2020 is now more critical than ever because Ruth Bader Ginsburg's ability to make it to 2024 due to age is in high doubt. They are like, in total meltdown mode now. I was curious if others feel that way. Personally I'd love to see her replaced with a more originalist Jurist, obviously.
LOL! "Originalism" is myth, designed to fool rubes and suckers.
And it's working.
Its the judges not on Trump's list we should probably be worried about.Kavanaugh was not on Trump's list when he campaigned. So while its good democrats weren't able to try to do that same dirty trick they tried with Clarence Thomas 26 years ago. I have to wonder if Kavanaugh is a good substitute for one of those people on his list and if we aren't being suckered into accepting a stealth liberal.
Truthfully if I had power to choose, I would choose a slightly left of center constitutionalist to replace her to keep balance on the courtm without trying to fill it with extreme partisans. I like the conservative majority but there needs to be some balance there, and if rbg kicks the bucket and a conservative judge is appointed, the balance will crumble and it will be a stacked court much like fdr had.
Kavanaugh's conservative credentials are more established than that of my former Colleague Amul Thapar. While I can vouch for Amul, I note he clerked for the late Hon. S. Arthur Spiegel, a pragmatic civil rights liberal (USDC) and very left Hon. Nathaniel Jones (USCOA-6th Circuit)
Fear? No. But I do think that RBG should be replaced with either a moderate or a liberal to keep the courts balance. It's a bit off balanced now but not to the point that is what I would consider as "dire". If RBG were to be replaced with another highly conservative judge then it would not be good.
yeah and that is what we need to start erasing the excesses of the FDR administration. and before people claim its established precedent, not FDR's courts ignored 140 years of established precedent.
On FB one of my friends said the need to defeat the GOP in 2020 is now more critical than ever because Ruth Bader Ginsburg's ability to make it to 2024 due to age is in high doubt. They are like, in total meltdown mode now. I was curious if others feel that way. Personally I'd love to see her replaced with a more originalist Jurist, obviously.
I hope he isn't another Souter.
You can tell a tech geek from a political geek when one sees RGB and automatically thinks "Red Green Blue"
It's not glee
yeah and that is what we need to start erasing the excesses of the FDR administration. and before people claim its established precedent, not FDR's courts ignored 140 years of established precedent.
Uh huh.
I want another strict originalist so the precedent dishonestly established under FDR can start being whittled away. The Commerce Clause was stretched beyond any honest bounds in that period and it needs to start being rolled back
TD hate to burst your bubble but the FDR excess which very few people know are now precedent. Have been for 80+ years. Thats over half of the previous 140. Its pretty well ingrained in this country. Social Security is only lawful because its a tax. A lot of current Federal government departments and functions are based on bad reading of the commerce clause. Thats a lot of disruption. How much change can the court realistically do? Who would bring those cases? How would they even get to the court to review? Those are the questions right off the top of my head.
^^^^
"Renae is gleefully wishing for RBG's death because I say so, not because Renae did."
well its consistent with "Ford is telling the truth because I was a victim of date rape"
Yeah, people like you haven't figured out what it means and how important it is to protecting all of our rights.
that's a fair point and yes you cannot just get rid of social security
but what we can do
1) make sure something like another Obama care is not upheld
2) get rid of most of the federal gun control laws such as the 1934 NFA-its clearly unconstitutional and won't cause any disruptions of institutions people rely upon.
3) in other words get rid of some of the restrictions on what people can do that are based on the commerce clause.
Nothing in the post you quoted referenced Ginsburg's "death," nor did it express any glee.
As always, if you're right, you don't have to make things up.
LOL! "Originalism" is myth, designed to fool rubes and suckers.
And it's working.
How so? Please give a well thought out post(questionable if you can) and not just your typical temper tantrum posts.
"But but but but but POSNER! He's a CONSERVATIVE!" is probably what you'll get.
You have to be a fairly old tech geek to know that. RGB is back in the early days when there were still CRT monitors. (Cathode Ray Tube)
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