Well, that’s what happens when you have no age limit on SCOTUS or Congress. I seem to recall having suggested that once and was accused of ageism. Try telling someone to retire when they don’t want to, and don’t have to, chances are you might get a hearty “Fuck you!” from said individual. If memory serves, RBG hoped to live long enough to see Biden elected, heaven only knows why Breyer is sticking around, maybe he loves the prestige that comes with being a jurist on the highest court in the land and isn’t willing to give up that power.
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I know RBG big thing was she wanted Clinton the first woman president to choose her replacement. She did not foresee a Trump win. And her body gave out before his term ended sadly. But with all of her health isses and cancer battle she should have retired and put the country first over the vanity of having the first woman president replace her.
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The thing is if they were arrested before the video caam out I am sure there would have been many who would have donated for the defense. But when that video came out a lot of people who defended them before hand started to step back. And rather then try and not paint the 3 as racists the Defense decided to stack the jury with all whites and I am sure were made when a black person slipped through. Even the judge said it was some shady crap.
I am sure the defense then thought "Well lets attack the black man to a pretty much all white jury in the state of Georiga and we can get them to steam roll a not guilty verdict past the token black jury member." And it back fired bad. And they did such a bad job even Fox stepped back and said Damn this is bad.
To Fox news defense a they had a guest that tried to talk about how the jury never went through the evidence and just rushed a verdict because of Thanksgiving being tomoorow and the host shut them down and wasnt having any part of it.
So these 3 still have their defenders.
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These posts...
Were pretty clearly about a user and not "News..."/"Politics..."
That's someone's opinion on a user and not stories that are in the news.
While I can understand the grumble?
Probably wouldn't hurt to keep it "News..."/"Politics..."
https://consequence.net/2021/11/loui...-comedy-album/Controversial comedian Louis C.K. has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Sincerely Louis CK, the 2020 special in which he joked about his sexual misconduct.
Sincerely Louis CK marked his first such special since being accused of sexual misconduct by five women in 2017. He later admitted that his accusers were being honest, saying, “These stories are true.”
For his return special, C.K. dove straight into the allegations. “I learned a lot [from the experience],” he said. “I learned how to eat alone in a restaurant with people giving me the finger from across the room.”
This is why I don't take any bloviating about cancel culture seriously, least of all about the 'silencing' of comedians.
That's the thing, RBG probably thought she was putting the country first by staying as long as she could. Let's be honest, even while Democrats controlled the House and Senate during Obama's term, there was no guarantee he could've gotten a liberal to replace her, not while Republicans would've moved heaven and earth to stonewall the pick (i.e. Mitch McConnell blocking Merrick Garland's nomination) until he left office. That might've played a big part in her reason to stay, now, did RBG ultimately screw the pooch by staying? Yes, but, again, without set age limits, you couldn't tell her to leave when she clearly didn't want want to. While I'm at, I suspect Democrats from Obama on down were scared to death of asking her to step down and never broached the subject because they knew they'd catch hell for trying to force out perhaps THE most renowned and popular Justice in a generation or more. Stupid thinking? Absolutely, but that's what I think happened.
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It also was, "don't politicize the court".
It would have been hypocritical of her to push against that her whole career, then bail on it because the GOP don't play by the same rules.
However, it's the choice liberals are left with at this point, to have the moral satisfaction of being better ethically than your opponents, but you can feel good about that while they get another step closer to authoritarian dominion.
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Oh yeah, that, too. Doesn't affect me much.
I just hope they do it better than in the Netherlands, where they decriminalized consumption in the coffee shops, but forced the people running those shops to buy their product from criminals, as growing and selling it remained illegal. That led to a huge increase in organized crime.
With Bryer right now the situation is different. He KNOWS what the cost would be if he doesnt retire imminently. He has himself acknowledged it and said he would be lying if he didnt say he wanted someone with similar values to replace him. That means quite clearly he better step down before midterms where it is HIGHLY likely the Democrats will not be in charge.
Holding out past that he will open himself up to the very real possibility of Mitch McConnel stonewalling till he can get yet another justice.
No one can take away the good they have done RGB and Bryer. But, seeing the state of the country and how rights of people seem to be backsliding and even defending what we thought were basic rights are in jeopardy its bordering on selfishness not to strategically bow out.