Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall

[kidd]

Time to retire, Ruthie, while you can still enjoy your remaining years.   

Now RBG's the biggest liberal on the Court,  and Thomas may choose to retire soon.   Thomas would, of course, be replaced by a strong Constitutionalist.    Replacing RBG with same would unleash the furies of hell.    Just wondering -  what if Trump were to promise to nominate Garland to replace RBG, in exchange for the House Dems dropping their impeachment investigations for both the President and Kavanaugh?    Is that a deal worth making for the sake of our polarized nation?    Or should both sides just go all in on absolute, total warfare?   

No no no no.
Let the investigation continue. Americans voted for it.
Americans voted for more GOP senators. They voted for more conservative judges.

What you call warfare is what the people voted for.

[WarmPotato]

Even if she kicked the bucket... they'll just obstruct like they did with Kavanaugh

[verga]

Even if she kicked the bucket... they'll just obstruct like they did with Kavanaugh

I would love to see them try the same crap with Amy Coney Barrett. Let's see how that plays out in the press and for them in the 2020 election. Conservatives will have a field day with it.

[Sanguine]

Actually, they didn't.   When Scalia passed,  they chose Merrick Garland as his replacement.  Not a Scalia constitutionalist, to be sure, but a judge widely regarded as a centrist, and whose votes on the DC Circuit were more aligned with Judge Kavanaugh's than you'd suspect.

Remember that Clarence Thomas has been rumored to be thinking retirement,  and it would certainly behoove him to do so during the next two years so a younger replacement can be named by a Republican.   Replacing a hard-core leftist and a constitutionalist with a centrist and a (much younger)constitutionalist is still a gain for conservatives -  and there are tangible benefits, in my view,  to lancing the nation's hyperpartisan boil.     

The only type of judge who should ever be on the court is an orginalist.  Their job is to make rulings based on our founding articles of incorporation, the Constitution.  That's it.  Anyone who sees their job as something else has no business being on the court.

[Jazzhead]

I would love to see them try the same crap with Amy Coney Barrett. Let's see how that plays out in the press and for them in the 2020 election. Conservatives will have a field day with it.

As things are, unfortunately, shaping up,  our Senate majority may be as slim as in was in the last Congress.  And that means the ability to get originalists on the Court is directly a function of what Collins and Murkowski will allow.

And most of the centrist Dems who would occasionally join in to confirm Republican judicial picks were defeated (Manchin, who survived, now owes absolutely nothing to Trump).  So it's all down to Collins and Murkowski again - if not more so.