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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Chad ochoseis Sep 18 2020 05:53 PM

This one's going to get her own thread. RBG, 87

metsmarathon Sep 18 2020 06:05 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Chad ochoseis wrote: This one's going to get her own thread. RBG, 87 Fuck!

batmagadanleadoff Sep 18 2020 06:59 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

RIP Ruth.You were one of the giants. (Now what? Pack the SCOTUS with four additional justices?) What a shitshow. OE -- To no one's surprise, Mitch McConnell announces that Trump's nominee to replace RBG will receive a vote on the Senate floor. Mitch, of course, means this present Senate. If this administration tries to confirm RBG's replacement, the process will almost certainly extend into the lame duck session.

ashie62 Sep 18 2020 07:32 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Beyond sad. Thought she was okay for awhile.

Fman99 Sep 18 2020 08:29 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

An actual American hero and patriot.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 18 2020 08:44 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Could this year get any worse? Locusts, I guess.

MFS62 Sep 19 2020 06:16 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Olevai Sholom to a great woman. That malevolent toad Mitch McConnell was probably orgasmic when he heard the news. I hope some of the Republican Senators who are in battles for re-election see this as a chance to appeal to the women voters they have lost and do the right thing - vote against any nominee. Later

Edgy MD Sep 19 2020 08:17 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=46896 time=1600483483 user_id=68] Could this year get any worse? Locusts, I guess.

The answer has continually been yes.

LWFS Sep 19 2020 05:39 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Edgy MD wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=46896 time=1600483483 user_id=68] Could this year get any worse? Locusts, I guess. The answer has continually been yes.

Stop asking. Somebody somewhere seems to take it as a challenge.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 20 2020 05:32 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Justice Ginsburg's death came as a surprise to even her close acquaintances as the Justice spent her last weeks seeing family, exercising, listening to opera and doing the work of the court. She even officiated at a wedding. That's how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent the weeks before her death Friday at 87. “She was trying very hard to treat this, and essentially her body just gave out,” Mary Hartnett, one of her two authorized biographer, said. https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/20/family-work-and-opera-filled-ginsburgs-final-summer/24625054/ RBG trivia: Ginsburg lived at the Watergate Apartments, formerly the Watergate Hotel and the site of ... you know.

Chad ochoseis Sep 20 2020 06:40 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=46896 time=1600483483 user_id=68] Could this year get any worse? Locusts, I guess.

I think the smart money is on severe civil unrest if there is any ambiguity in the election results, and that just got more likely with RBG gone.

G-Fafif Sep 24 2020 06:46 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Just somebody you might sit next to on a plane. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-my-flight-with-ruth-bader-ginsburg-20200923-ixhgbhn26bh4tb2sqjl6gu75li-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2D0gKduHE-IJMrvauO8LOyGIFd1FukWtBudmSl9gfTX9r3nCAIMYu8ZNI&fbclid=IwAR1mOzuw48Ejk0u-955dF66B5c9yui7bpEaNBvAerz0kRNJgaOxpKoeR348

Edgy MD Sep 25 2020 08:42 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

The Washington Post tells me that Justice Ginsburg is the first Jewish person and first woman to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm surprised at the latter. I would've sworn Rosa Parks had the honor.

Edgy MD Sep 25 2020 08:53 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Unless I'm missing something, I'm right, and I've written those damn Post editors.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 25 2020 09:00 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Lying in State And Rosa Parks may not have been the first! There are a few things we don't know about J. Edgar Hoover!

MFS62 Sep 25 2020 09:00 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

I would have guessed Chief Justice Brandeis would have had that honor. Later

Edgy MD Sep 25 2020 11:57 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

I wrote at 10:49AM and The Post still hasn't made a correction. Am I wrong? Are there different categories or ways to "lie in state at the U.S. Capitol"?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 25 2020 12:22 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

I imagine that most, if not all, are lying on their backs.

Edgy MD Sep 25 2020 12:35 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Some may lie in the Rotunda and others in the Statuary Hall, I guess. Some may lie in the commissary, too. I hear Leader McConnell has been lying on the Senate floor. WHOAH!!

Edgy MD Sep 27 2020 07:30 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Apparently, there is more than one way to lie in state. Justice Ginsburg is the first woman (or her remains are the first remains of a woman) to "lie in state" in the Capitol, a tribute she could qualify for because, as a justice, she was actually a state official. Ms. Parks was a civilian, so she was granted the distinction to "lie in honor," which I imagine is more or less the same, but for the name.

G-Fafif Sep 27 2020 06:05 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

https://twitter.com/normornstein/status/1310226089906712576?s=21

ashie62 Sep 28 2020 05:48 PM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Ha! Hearing before the Judiciary Committee 10/22. C'mon Jaime Harrison, beat Graham.

G-Fafif Sep 29 2020 11:48 AM Re: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 (split from Dead Thread)

Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: Her death was painful for the millions of women who called her a role model and hero because her work mattered to us, and to our material lives. It was made more painful because Mitch McConnell was already dancing on her grave back in May, months before she died, and because within an hour of her death, he announced that her seat was his to fill. This was an act of erasure by a man who didn't mind that his rush to replace her violated the old-fashioned idea that the country should be given just one moment to honor her legacy before going to war over what remained. And it was painful because we knew that whoever was named to her seat would be tasked with undoing her legacy. Amid all of this grief, we are now subject to a turn to parody that is also cruelty. The White House rollout of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as candidate for the seat has gone beyond erasing Ginsburg's legacy—they are stealing the trappings of that legacy and stripping it for parts. On Trump's orders, CNN reported, the Rose Garden was deliberately done up to mirror precisely Bill Clinton's announcement of Ginsburg's nomination. There are now grotesque GOP T-shirts that imply that 60 years of unprecedented and brilliant legal advocacy by Ginsburg could simply be reappropriated by someone else because she too is a woman in possession of three names. This comedic implication—that Barrett is the natural inheritor of Ginsburg's legacy—is depraved. As Donald Trump explained when he introduced her, Barrett's work to dismantle Ginsburg's legacy in abortion, health care, discrimination, and gun rights is to be construed as pro-women simply because a woman will be doing it. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/notorious-amy-coney-barrett-contempt.html