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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Ginsburg is thinking of retiring...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/20/ginsburg-retirement_n_5182236.htmlShe should do so before the Nov. elections. If the GOP gets control of the Senate (which certainly is a possibility) the best Obama could get through is a right of center moderate that would give the conservative Court assholes another swing vote.
Let Obama at least have the chance for a center left moderate. (I have no hope for a truly progressive to get on the court)
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If Ginsburg is thinking of retiring... (Original Post)
edhopper
Apr 2014
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I'm not sure at all that BHO wouldn't pick a right of center on his own, because "bi-partisanship."
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2014
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)1. She's already said she's not retiring.
I thin her plan is to be like Rehnquist.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. And he wouldn't want a "right of center moderate"?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. I'm not sure at all that BHO wouldn't pick a right of center on his own, because "bi-partisanship."
edhopper
(33,639 posts)4. Frightening thought
Hekate
(90,865 posts)6. Obama picked Kagen and Sotomayor, yes? What's your beef with them, overall? nt
Hekate
(90,865 posts)5. If only Scalia would feel the urge to spend more time with his family...
Maybe Clarence could finally realize how much more money he and Ginnie could make on the RW lecture circuit if they both were in the business.
>sigh<
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)7. It would be better if Scalia and Thomas went on the lecture circuit together
so Clarence would know what to say.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)8. Excellent notion -- maybe someone on the side of reason could talk this idea up with them! nt