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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feinstein is reminding me of RBG at the end. They both thought that they were more important than their ideals and hung on long enough to gravely damage what they believed in. If Feinstein does't step down before 2024, and Biden loses then she's helped cement a conservative judiciary just as much as RBG did by not resigning while Obama had the senate. [/quote]

Disagree.  You are basing this on your political beliefs.  And, in that, you are correct.

But, RBG did her job and was alert.

When would you have had her resign?  Obama's last nominee to the Supreme Court did not get put forward.  Would you have had her resign in his first term?

Feinstein should not have run for the Senate this last time.  Her staff has been running the show more than most staffs for a very long time.[/quote]

I would have had RBG resign because she was already past 75 when Obama was inaugurated and she was the justice furtherest to the left. If she wanted her replacement to embody her views, she needed to step down under a democratic president who had a democratic senate. She held on too long and ended up being replaced by a 48 year old woman who could spend the next 30 years undoing her legacy[/quote]

DP and I get it, I just don’t think it was as clear cut as the situation with Feinstein right now.  Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment (although it probably shouldn’t be), [b]RBG was mentally fit until the end, [/b]and there’s no guarantee that Obama could have gotten a nominee through a republican senate during his second term. Plus, most of the pundits were picking Clinton to win.  In hindsight yeah, she should have stepped down but I don’t think it was as clear at the time, and she still almost made it through the trump years.

Does Feinstein even know what is going on or is her staff pulling all the strings (and not wanting to be out of their jobs)?  This is partly on Schumer too because he never should have reappointed her to the judiciary committee.[/quote]

You really can not say this. There was a cult around her who shielded her. We have no idea if she was mentally fit. You have to look at a person’s full career to evaluate it’s worth. In reality RGB decision to stay on eases all her work and locked in a republicans radical majority on the bench for 30-40 years. RGB was a failure. Feinstein will be looked at the same way.[/quote]

NP I agree with this. RGB brought about the downfall of her own legacy, and actually put the entire country at risk of devolving into theocracy by refusing to retire, even when she was diagnosed with a cancer that is nearly always terminal.  Feinstein likewise has been unable to do her job for years, and everyone around her knows it, and yet she refuses to retire.  I am not going to respect someone for doing so much for liberal causes when their own selfishness and vanity causes them to refuse to give up a title when keeping it puts all of those accomplishments at risk.  I am just so angry at top democrats for allowing this to go on.  Republicans wouldn't.[/quote]

RBG expected Hillary Clinton to win in 2016 and appoint her replacement. [/quote]

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