Ruth Bader Ginsberg died on Friday evening after losing her battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was only 87 years old, but represented a struggle that has lasted thousands of years.
Sep 20, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool, Amee Vanderpool
Beautiful. She was my hero and I’m sorry her death will now be pounced upon by a malicious, corrupt, lying, hypocritical administration. It’s more critical than ever before we flip the Senate, the POTUS, and strengthen our numbers in the House. Then Congress can pass a law adding Justices to SCOTUS.
What an incredible tribute to an absolutely amazing woman, someone who I think will go down as one of the most consequential Justices in the history of this country.
Justice Ginsburg literally sacrificed her life for her job. I am absolutely convinced that she put her country and her desire to see all treated equally ahead of her own life, because she knew all too well the stakes if stepped down or away from the Supreme Court.
Now, with our hearts filled with grief, we must also contemplate a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the high court, as Moscow Mitch did what we all knew that he would do when he issued a statement within an hour of Justice Ginsburg’s passing vowing to have a Senate vote on a new justice despite his pious pronouncements on the Court in 2016. Worse yet, I don’t see any way that the Democrats can stop him. So, I think that we are probably looking at Justice Amy Coney Barrett (sooner rather than later), and that will be the end of the ACA, Roe v. Wade, etc., and when the election battle inevitably shifts to the courts after November 3rd, Trump will have his 6-3 Supreme Court majority (with three of those Justices appointed by him) there to rubber stamp his theft of the election.
I am trying so hard not to be completely disheartened right now, but the ripple effects of RBG’s passing have me really down.
Sep 20, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool, Amee Vanderpool
Magnificent tribute! Republicans. So they replaced the legendary Thurgood Marshall with a black man - Clarence Thomas - and dared Dems to vote him down. So now they are promising to replace a hero, RBG, with another woman. Curses! Yay, I guess. But then you realize, well, Michele Bachmann is a woman, for example. So go from there on expectations of who we will get. Antonin Scalia acolyte and former clerk, who's young enough to destroy democracy for 40 years? George Costanza voice: "Is that cynical?"
Sep 20, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool, Amee Vanderpool
I too am at a loss Amee and found myself schooling my three nieces this morning.in their 30’s
They kept saying we get it , we get it! I said no you don’t if not for her I would not be out🏳️🌈 her death is very personal to me, and never mind her writing and at the same time being vlose friends with a guy who was her ideological opposite. For such a small woman she was a giant. We must fulfill her last wish.
Thank you Amee, beautifully said. We all have lost a brilliant, shining star. A role model, icon, legend and way-shower of a woman who touched everyone's being profoundly. We can now move forward, in her memory and continue the good fight that we are here for. A living tribute!
I envision that her husband Marty, welcomed her back home Friday evening. And that makes me happy, and has given me hope. ✨RestInPowerRBG✨
Beautiful. She was my hero and I’m sorry her death will now be pounced upon by a malicious, corrupt, lying, hypocritical administration. It’s more critical than ever before we flip the Senate, the POTUS, and strengthen our numbers in the House. Then Congress can pass a law adding Justices to SCOTUS.
What an incredible tribute to an absolutely amazing woman, someone who I think will go down as one of the most consequential Justices in the history of this country.
Justice Ginsburg literally sacrificed her life for her job. I am absolutely convinced that she put her country and her desire to see all treated equally ahead of her own life, because she knew all too well the stakes if stepped down or away from the Supreme Court.
Now, with our hearts filled with grief, we must also contemplate a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the high court, as Moscow Mitch did what we all knew that he would do when he issued a statement within an hour of Justice Ginsburg’s passing vowing to have a Senate vote on a new justice despite his pious pronouncements on the Court in 2016. Worse yet, I don’t see any way that the Democrats can stop him. So, I think that we are probably looking at Justice Amy Coney Barrett (sooner rather than later), and that will be the end of the ACA, Roe v. Wade, etc., and when the election battle inevitably shifts to the courts after November 3rd, Trump will have his 6-3 Supreme Court majority (with three of those Justices appointed by him) there to rubber stamp his theft of the election.
I am trying so hard not to be completely disheartened right now, but the ripple effects of RBG’s passing have me really down.
Magnificent tribute! Republicans. So they replaced the legendary Thurgood Marshall with a black man - Clarence Thomas - and dared Dems to vote him down. So now they are promising to replace a hero, RBG, with another woman. Curses! Yay, I guess. But then you realize, well, Michele Bachmann is a woman, for example. So go from there on expectations of who we will get. Antonin Scalia acolyte and former clerk, who's young enough to destroy democracy for 40 years? George Costanza voice: "Is that cynical?"
I too am at a loss Amee and found myself schooling my three nieces this morning.in their 30’s
They kept saying we get it , we get it! I said no you don’t if not for her I would not be out🏳️🌈 her death is very personal to me, and never mind her writing and at the same time being vlose friends with a guy who was her ideological opposite. For such a small woman she was a giant. We must fulfill her last wish.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you Amee, beautifully said. We all have lost a brilliant, shining star. A role model, icon, legend and way-shower of a woman who touched everyone's being profoundly. We can now move forward, in her memory and continue the good fight that we are here for. A living tribute!
I envision that her husband Marty, welcomed her back home Friday evening. And that makes me happy, and has given me hope. ✨RestInPowerRBG✨