Whatever her lifetime achievements, she will be remembered as a grasping, selfish and vain old lady who hung onto a very important public service position years beyond where she was physically capable of performing her duties.
There is no doubt that Ginsberg was in poor health during the Obama years but decided to hang in there for President Hillary all so that she could have the personal satisfaction of having the first woman president appoint her successor. Had Hillary actually won, RGB would have resigned within days Scalia's replacement being sworn in so that Hillary would have the triumph of appointing TWO SC justices early in her first term.
Well that gambit failed badly the evening of Nov 8, 2020.
Then RGB decided to defiantly "outlive" the Trump Administration, despite incredibly poor health that kept her from even being seen in public for more than once or twice a year and then only under tightly controlled circumstances. As for her votes, she simply mailed them in and likely did not have the stamina and mental acuity to properly consider the cases at hand. How is that serving the nation?
So Trump and the Republicans have the perfect right to replace this SC seat immediately. They should have had it four years ago but not for this stubborn woman who decided it was better to die in office than to give the hated Trump the privilege of choose her successor.
Her gamble failed and sorry, but it's just not the president's problem.
“Well that gambit failed badly the evening of Nov 8, 2020”
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