Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 6:31am

Boom: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died

 

May her soul rest in peace.  She was 87.  Her long fight against cancer can only be viewed with admiration.  Prayers for her family.

This is 2020 so a Supreme Court nomination fight on top of a Presidential election is par for the course.  Much, much more to follow.  The picture at the top are Justices Scalia and Ginsburg riding an elephant.  The Justices were close friends.  At the death of Scalia Justice Ginsburg recalled him as her best buddy.  Such friendship across partisan lines seems now as if it were from another geological era.  More is the pity.

My prediction is that Trump will nominate and have a justice confirmed prior to election day, and the fight will be like nothing ever seen in Supreme Court confirmation fights.

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Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 5:51pm

I’m just going to go ahead and restate what we all know:
This is the first opportunity in 20 or 30 years to do something substantial about abortion.

No Catholic in good conscience can vote for Biden / Harris.

Foxfier
Admin
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 5:58pm

This is 2020 so a Supreme Court nomination fight on top of a Presidential election is par for the course.

Yeah, pretty much.

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 6:50pm

Good.

From 2009 in the New York Times Magazine regarding a Supreme Court ruling in 1980, “The ruling surprised me. Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.”

From my favorite Dickens story, A Christmas Carol, “Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.”

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 6:58pm

You can expect days if not weeks of propaganda via news outlets, portraying the newest Secular Saint;
[st. Ruth of perpetual bloodshed.]

An honor only Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler can appreciate.

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 7:07pm

“And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”

Her perception was Medicaid was going to fund abortion and she was wrong about that. She didn’t say she was wrong about her “concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

GregB
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 9:33pm

In 2020 we have definitely been living in interesting times.

Rudolph Harrier
Rudolph Harrier
Friday, September 18, AD 2020 9:54pm

Just realized that we’re going to see public memorial services for her from now until election day.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 1:51am

we’re going to see public memorial services for her from now until election day.

John McCain funeral mourners hardest hit.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 2:01am

Now Trump will command the stage from now through election. The Ginsburg replacement process will highlight the specifics of the philosophical riff in America. It will be interesting to see how the USCCB reacts. My guess is with fatuous comments.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 2:16am

Now Trump will command the stage from now through election.

Unless the Republican Senate balks and refuses to act. In which case, the Democrats have a reason to vote for Biden instead of voting against Trump.

This needs to be settled before mid-October or the GOP is in serious trouble.

DJH
DJH
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 5:23am

The GOP is already in serious trouble. Assuming Trump wins, and I am not convinced he will, I think it simply delays the inevitable. Who comes after Trump? I know of no Republican who can take over. Young people may not be sufficiently motivated to come out for Biden; give them four years. They will vote, probably hard left as they’ve been taught in school–both public and yes, Catholic.

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 7:02am

“they will vote, probably hard left as they’ve been taught in school”
Not necessarily. How many of us still have exactly the same political leanings and opinions that we had at age 18 or 22? Those whose natural tendency is to rebel against the establishment, when the “establishment” is hard left all the way down, will have nowhere to turn but to the right. Additionally, young people don’t stay young forever and sufficient experience with earning a living, paying taxes, navigating the school system and other bureaucracies, etc. might turn them back toward conservatism in later years. It would be interesting to find out how many former hippies from the 60s and 70s are now Trump supporters — probably more than people realize.

Nekofanatic
Nekofanatic
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 7:47am

Frankly, the Democrats have an easy way to delay the selection process. Just as the Republicans insisted that a selection so close to an election should be delayed when Trump was originally running, Democrats can do the same. And Republicans can’t balk at the suggestion or they will appear as hypocrites.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/13/senate-unlikely-confirm-obama-supreme-court-nominee/80351274/

Nekofanatic
Nekofanatic
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 7:48am

Of course, the second I post the previous I find the Dems already have done what I suggest.

Obama has already called for the delay and McConnell already said he’d push ahead. To me that is a horrible political decision. Republicans already get enough thrown at them without giving the Democrats a true story of them pushing ahead on something they previously, and very publicly, pushed against.

stilbelieve
stilbelieve
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 7:58am

Times are becoming very interesting. Catholics who want to get to heaven better start choosing their professed faith over their political identity if they truly want what they pray for standing before Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, praying for “God’s will be done on earth” in the Our Father. With the passing of this Supreme Court judge, President Trump along with the majority in the U.S. Senate, can place a new justice on the court before the November 3rd election whose beliefs in the original meaning of our Constitution, will most certainly lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade in a year or two. That will certainly enable God’s will to be done on earth starting in the U.S.A concerning unborn life.

SouthCoast
SouthCoast
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 10:27am

Since Trump will be in for, shall we say, strongly-worded commentary, no matter what he does in this instance, I say cut to the chase and go for it. But, then, that’s just one ex-hippie Trump voter’s opinion.

Rudolph Harrier
Rudolph Harrier
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 11:33am

Even McConnell himself has explained why his rule doesn’t apply. There’s nothing unconstitutional about replace a vacant seat now. It will anger dems to no end, but they’re going to be angry in any case. Even if we waited until after President Trump’s reelection, they would just start saying that the replacement has to be an activist liberal judge “because that’s who Ginsburg would want to replace her.”

So there’s no reason not to go, go, go.

Foxfier
Admin
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 11:47am

Southcoast says pretty much what I was thinking– they’ll be called hypocrites no matter what.

Notably, what I’ve heard folks yelling for is “wait until there is a NEW PRESIDENT.”

Gosh, presuming much?

Art Deco
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 12:04pm

Who comes after Trump? I know of no Republican who can take over.

The Democrat they’ve put forward is a 77 year old politician-for-life whose staff is reduced to making use of a TelePrompTer to feed him the answers to press inquiries. NB, James Corden ain’t exactly Mike Wallace. His understudy is someone who proved to be unsalable to their own electorate.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 12:24pm

The McConnell Rule is the old Biden Rule.

And Democrats are going to do what they’re going to do anyways, so it would be foolish not to act.

Foxfier
Admin
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 12:28pm

Young people may not be sufficiently motivated to come out for Biden; give them four years. They will vote, probably hard left as they’ve been taught in school–both public and yes, Catholic.

Meh, that’s what they assured me I was doing as far back as I can remember.
Respond quite violently when they notice you’re not, too, before they go back to pretending that “all young people” are doing what their script demands.

Wasn’t true then, isn’t true now, although I damned sure learned that pointing out the Left was lying about “young people” or “women” or any other demographic they’ve claimed, to someone on the Right who has decided for some unknown reason to believe them, results in a fit that is very nearly as hysterical.

The sky isn’t falling. In spite of being practically abandoned to be preyed on by the Left, young people are NOT mindless automata who do as they’re told. We’re just not so freaking stupid as to constantly stick our hands into a meat grinder for no good reason, and that’s what making it obvious IS.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 3:59pm

They sent a packet of ricin to the White House.

DJH
DJH
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 7:42pm

“I am too realistic to be a pessimist DJH.”
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I just report what I see, Mr. McClarey, but I hope you (and Foxfier) are correct. I’ve seen my town go from solid red to very purple. The major employer flies the Pride flag now in June. Biden/Harris signs are everywhere, and Gov. Whitmer enjoys wide support, especially among the younger college grads and professional class. Even people who businesses and income have been damaged support her. At lunch with old friends, they freely talked about wanting to go to the Trump rally as protestors, but were afraid they’d be punched in the face. They pray for his defeat-he’s a racist, bigoted, sexist, divisive homophobe and all. All but one used to be solid GOP, or so I thought.
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An acquaintance wanted to go to barber for a hair cut; her college age children told her they’d report the barber to the authorities. My oldest who once wrote about the Church’s position on IVF has done a 180: he’s pro contraception and abortion now. His fiance was conceived by IVF, and he won’t hear a word against it. Another son has trans friends and was severely critical of Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage.”
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I fell asleep in 2016 after Trump was elected, and really only paid attention to Church news. Now I have woken up, the world is on fire, and I know longer recognize the people I thought I knew.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Saturday, September 19, AD 2020 9:01pm

I for one am much less sanguine about the welcome demise of the unswervingly Left ideologue known as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I’m not at all sorry she’s giving now an account of herself to a surprisingly much higher Authority than herself now. It doesn’t seem fair, because Judge is just and equitable and she never was for a NY minute.

One of my favorite books in the Old Testament is the Book of Judges. Although some judges in Israel were just and equitable, eventually many corrupt judges arose who failed to give the people their due rights and thus created a crisis in the rule of law and the order of the ancient state.

Ginsburg was like that. There really was no sense in having a judicial hearing. Her prejudicial decision was already made in her mind. She showed that again and again, even most shockingly when she very loudly attacked Donald Trump simply for daring to change the status quo.

No, I am so glad that Ruth Buzzi is gone.

DJH
DJH
Sunday, September 20, AD 2020 5:46am

Thank you. My father loved history as well. Russell Kirk, Paul Johnson, Thomas Sowell (economist, of course). Harvest of Sorrow, Mises (economist). An undiagnosed dyslexic, he was proud to have finished The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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How I wish he had live long enough to have had a real impact on my sons’ lives and thoughts.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sunday, September 20, AD 2020 8:08am

Disclaimer – my opinion is my own. I do NOT represent any company, corporation, organization, institution, or church. Sorry – I got to say that before I post the text below.

What DJH reports is true in my industry. There was a time when Navy nuclear sailors and commercial nuclear professionals were mostly conservative. When Reagan defeated Carter while I was board my old submarine in 79-80, the entire crew cheered! But now fully half the commercial and military nuclear population – reflecting the general population at large – are liberal, and most hate Trump. My company (Neutrons ‘R Us) is fully engaged in the propaganda of today’s LGBTQ inclusion and BLM support. Fortunately there were a series of Condition Reports by conservatives pushing back against the company’s blatant liberal bias. For you non-nukes who don’t know, a CR can be written by anyone on any issue or problem as part of the US NRC’s Safety Culture Work Environment (SCWE) – sort of a very formalized whistle blower program. Each CR gets posted on the company’s intranet site, everyone in the company reads the new CR report every day, and is available at any time for US NRC review. In fact, US NRC inspectors perform periodic corrective action program audits – you non-nukes have nothing like it. Most CRs are about innocuous things like calculation errors, procedure inconsistencies, vendor interface problems, etc. – stuff every engineering company (nuclear and non-nuclear) goes through. But in the case of nuclear, every single thing has to be reported. It’s all a part of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion XVI. But back to the point: the company’s leftward bias has caused great dissension since half the people are still sane and uncontaminated by all this nonsense about inclusion, tolerance, diversity, etc. And that leftward bias is aided and abetted by promoting carbon free nuclear with cries about the how nuclear can obviate global warming. Marketing is a big supporter of leftist causes because of this, and it’s not just in one nuclear company but now everywhere. A few years ago the head of the company went to the White House to promote new nuclear technology, but he refused to be photographed with President Trump and would not comment on the meeting to reporters because word would get back to the snowflake soy boys and feminists girls in the office, and massive disruption would occur. Now if Obama had been in office, then photos would have been plastered everywhere in the company – “COO meets with first black President to promote nuclear!” I am just in shock that the most intelligent and knowledgeable engineers in the world cannot rationally discern what’s going on socially and politically. They are brilliant in math and science, but they know nothing of history, religion or even language for that matter. And the heads of the company really do want geriatric dementia Biden in office because Trump just isn’t the smooth talker and nicer and kinder and gentler person that Obama was. The bias is passive aggressive – hidden and covert, but very, very biting. But now management knows that we workers who are conservative are watching them. They can’t chill us out any more because of SCWE, and they can’t fire us for our political beliefs either.

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