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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Dem with a different opinion.

Roberts didn’t want it to go down this way. Three activist justices appointed by Trump did this. Blame them, not all R’s.

[b]And blame RBG for not retiring. [/b]And all the Dems who hated HRC and voted for Trump.

Not all R’s are maga. This decision might be a wake up call for R women.

While I’m a lifelong Dem, I’m not an AOC super lefty.

Let’s focus on bringing women and men together to fight this instead of drawing more lines. [/quote]

Why do people keep saying this? How do we know we wouldn't have ended up with another Merrick Garland situation? I bet that but for Merrick Garland she would have retired. [/quote]

Then blame Obama and the Dems for not fighting to seat Garland. I do. I also blame RBG. [/quote]

You wouldn't have wound up with  a Merrick Garland situation because from 2009 -2015 Obama had the Senate votes to replace RBG with whoever he wanted.  The only time in Obama's tenure (the 114th congress, Jan 2015 on) when there was a (very strong) Republican control of the senate.  At that point the Repubs had 54 senate votes and there was nothing Obama could do to either replace RBG or get Garland on SC.

Had RBG retired earlier, Obama easily could have replaced her with whoever he wanted (within reason) and the Republicans would have had little recourse and would have had to resort to Christine Blasey-Ford/Anita Hill type tactics, if they so chose, to attempt to stop it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses[/quote]

You think the President should have forced a Supreme Court justice to retire against her will?!

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Of course not.  RBG should have realized her own mortality, understood the ramifications of losing that seat and retired on her own.  Obama gently tried to suggest this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/politics/rbg-retirement-obama.html

RBG decided not to retire and Amy Comey Barrett wound up with her seat.  People can canonize her all they want but these are facts, as ugly as they are.  We are now living with the results.

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It’s [i]seriously[/i] bizarre that you place all this on a pro choice woman instead of on the six lying extremist judges, the dark money forces who bought them, the knuckle draggers whose votes made them possible and the terrible humans who run the GOP. [/quote]

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