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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think RGB could easily serve well into her 90s and she's sharp as a tack.[/quote]

She's senile.  She can't control her mouth.  If she had her wits about her she'd never have embarrassed herself the way she did by attacking Trump, for which she had to apologize.[/quote]

I agree that she is not mentally all there compared to a few years ago. She also made some dumb remarks about not standing for the national anthem and had to back down.

It is probably a good argument for mandatory retirement by say 80 years of age.[/quote]

At that age, and this isn't just Ginsburg, it applies to all those old farts of whatever political stripe--she's not actually doing any of the legal work at all.  The brilliant law clerks write all the opinions.  The doddering old justices may generally shape the opinions, or tell the clerks what outcome they want, but all the nitty gritty legal analysis is done by the laws clerks.

It is absolutely impossible for people who are that old to keep up with the amount and complexity of legal work required.  It's like any other high level job.  There's a reason corporations have mandatory retirement ages and most state judges have mandatory retirement at age 70 if not before.

It's staggering to think that we have 3 or 4 literally senile people in charge of such an important institution.   Fortunately, most of what the Supreme Court does, most of its caseload, deals with very obscure issues that don't usually have very much impact on our day to day lives.  Maybe 3 or 4 cases a term, if that.  Most of their cases are pretty stupid like some issue of antitrust law or securities law or civil procedure and most people don't give a shit about that unless their business is directly impacted by it.  Then you have the odd gay marriage or abortion case and everyone gets interested.  But those don't come down the pike too often.[/quote]

The law clerks do all of the nitty gritty work for all of the justices, even the younger ones.  You sound naïve.  You really think that Roberts is researching on Westlaw?  Besides, all of the relevant law is in the appellate record and briefing anyway.  [/quote]

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