AP “We are talking about the Constitution and the Supreme Court,” his statement read. Hundreds of people visited the US Supreme Court to pay their respects to the late justice US President Donald Trump has said he will next week nominate a woman to … Judicial philosophy is likely to be a major theme in Senators’ questions to any eventual nominee, though it is not always an indicator of how judges will come down in any given case. President Donald Trump has promised to announce a nominee to replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Friday or Saturday, while a … RUTH Bader Ginsburg will become the first woman to lie in state in the US Capitol, as Trump pledged that her replacement to the Supreme Court would be a woman. (There’s also something to be said about how people who tried to undermine a free and fair election by abusing FISA procedure and persecuting private citizens over politics have no moral or ethical authority to demand when we can and cannot vote on confirming a nominee, but that’s for another time.). The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg’s pointed and powerful dissenting opinions earned her late-life rock stardom. Two Catholic names touted frequently for the SCOTUS are those of 7th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett and Judge Amul Thapar of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Republicans will need to hold on to all their contested seats. Ginsburg could have listened to those who urged her to retire when Obama was still in office instead of shutting them down. For your security, we need to re-authenticate you. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination. The ideological balance of the nine-member court is crucial to its rulings on the most important issues in US law. This was the position [the] Republican Senate took in 2016 . Trump was fresh off the stage at last night’s Minnesota rally and learned about the news live on camera. He tweeted: “We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. McConnell and Senate Republicans did just this with Merrick Garland. There is legitimate fear this year, however, that Democrats could take back the Senate. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87 The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg’s pointed and powerful dissenting opinions earned her late-life rock stardom. For instance, Senators Lindsay Graham (SC), Thom Tillis (NC), and Joni Ernst (IA) are up for reelection and are on the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Graham is chair. She famously said, “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”. Not for a moment did one think the other should be condemned or ostracized. Both have been appointed fairly recently to the federal appellate bench, experience on which is generally thought to be a requisite for elevation to the Supreme Court. I hoped it wouldn’t be lost in the news of her passing, but sadly I think it has already. nytimes.com September 18th 2020 1,896 Retweets 6,428 Likes A further feud has emerged just weeks before the US election after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Fortunately for Republicans, Trump is a brawler and has outright said he will fight, but the Republican Senate must fight with him: McConnell is a master parliamentarian and has served Trump well in confirming scores of judges and reshape the courts. Right now, very little is certain. “Her opinions,” Trump’s statement continued, “including well-known decisions regarding the legal equality of women and the disabled, have inspired all Americans, and generations of great legal minds.”, Born in New York to Jewish immigrant parents in 1933, Ginsburg was educated first at Cornell University and then at Harvard Law School. . I imagine those on the left must frantically be digging in to opposition research on Trump’s SC nomination shortlist, including an 11th hour strategy to derail any potential nomination vote. “[The late] Paula Wiesenfeld [who died in childbirth], in fact the principal wage-earner, is treated as though her years of work were of only secondary value to her family,” Ginsburg argued before the Supreme Court in January of 1975. We are not ruled by tyrants in black cloth. We have this obligation, without delay!”. It is not at all clear that it should. Meanwhile, the handicapping of who shall be the nominee has already begun. Democrats only need to flip three seats should Biden win and four should he lose. Click here to sign in or get access. However, National Public Radio reported on Friday that Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” It appears that desire is not likely to inform the action of either the White House or Republicans in the US Senate. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Joe Biden are seen together in 1993. The left will work to divide the Republicans in the Senate, pitting them against one another. I’ll lay them out briefly. That she did not, and instead chose to try to shape policy through her seat on the court, left Democrats to gamble with chance and a tense nation to face further unrest in the wake of her death. The Senate must advise and consent, but they may determine when to vote or not vote. Her shortsightedness has cost her party. O’Connor disappointed Reagan, Roberts did Bush, and I would hate to think we’d rush through an untested and unscrutinized candidate that may disappoint Trump. Nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993, US President Bill Clinton said that he wanted someone “with a fine mind, good judgement, wide experience in the law and in the problems of real people, and somebody with a big heart”. He is already working to steady uneasy senators but the specious, yet withering blows have begun. “Historically, this has not been viewed as a question,” Mr. Obama said last week. Her interest in women’s rights piqued early, and she decided to fight for equality from within the legal system. Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia were good friends even with their disagreements. Days before her death, she dictated a statement to her granddaughter and said: "My … Ginsburg, 87, died on Friday, just six weeks before the presidential election. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke out this weekend, asserting: “The voters should pick the president, and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider. In these early stages I sort of like the idea of an Amy Coney Barrett nomination simply for the storm it would create for Democrats having to woo both suburban moms and Catholic voters for Biden while Kavanaugh-ing a suburban, Catholic mom nominee. “Justice Ginsburg demonstrated that one can disagree without being disagreeable toward one’s colleagues or different points of view,” said US President Donald Trump in a statement released after her passing — though as Secretary Scalia and others more intimately acquainted with the Justices and their friendship have been keen to point out, that did not mean they minced words or pulled punches. Ginsburg, who died Friday at age 87 after a battle with cancer, leaves behind an open seat on the Supreme Court where conservatives now outnumber the liberals. This is not her choice. That’s all any of us can hope for. “Stephen Wiesenfeld, in fact the nurturing parent, is treated as though he did not perform that function. The vacancy her death leaves on the high court has already become a contentious political issue. She achieved a landmark victory in securing Social Security to widowers which were previously only permitted for widows. The right has already had early skirmishes over Barrett, which may be a good thing. One thing, however, is clear: the next six weeks in US political life just became more contentious. More than that, they believed that what they were doing — arriving at their own opinions thoughtfully and advancing them vigorously — was essential to the national good.”. Graham vociferously led the fight to defend Kavanaugh, providing a soundbite for the ages: If you’ve never before involved yourself in a campaign, or donated to a candidate, worked phones or canvassed for them, this is the time to do it. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death may have totally shaken up Trump's electoral chances RBG's dying wish was that her replacement not be chosen by Donald Trump More on: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the Supreme Court’s feminist icon. Henry J. Gomez BuzzFeed News Reporter. By Henry J. Gomez. In all seriousness though, the nominee should be blisteringly vetted before they hit the hearing. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. She was 87 years old, and had served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 27 years. This is going to be a brawl unlike anything you’ve ever seen. But this fight isn’t just limited to the nominee. Many senators won’t soon forget how heinously he — and they — were treated by the Marxist left during that spectacle, nor will voters. ET Tweet Share … Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/ BAY-dər GINZ-burg; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, née Joan Ruth Bader le 15 mars 1933 à Brooklyn (New York), est une avocate, juriste et juge américaine, membre de la Cour suprême des États-Unis depuis 1993. But in a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. His response was all class: There are several components of this fight to consider. Joe Biden Said There's "No Doubt" The Next President Should Nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Replacement “In the coming days, we should focus on the loss of the justice and her enduring legacy,” Biden said soon after news broke of the Supreme Court justice's death. That’s the position the United States Senate must take today.”, Meanwhile President Donald Trump has stated his intention to replace Ginsburg “without delay”. A high-stakes battle over U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor could have big implications for the nation and Michigan, from health care and abortion to the November election. You have a beautiful way with words, Mrs Loesch! These are not seats to be owned or inherited or directed in any way except by the free will of the voter. Easy targets are Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and willing village idiot Mitt Romney. She was a co-founder, in the 1970’s, of American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project. McConnell reminded senators of these facts last night when he cautioned them to “keep your powder dry. WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over her replacement. . This is not the time to prematurely lock yourselves into a position you may later regret.” He explained that the “Biden Rule” “which provided that the Senate will not fill Supreme Court vacancies that arise in presidential election years when the presidency and the Senate majority are held by opposing parties.” [My emphasis.]. President Donald Trump hailed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a "brilliant mind" in a statement Friday evening, praising her for demonstrating "that one … Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87. Democrats played power games to change the rules and benefit themselves under Harry Reid and this helped to pave the way for Trump to fully accomplish his judicial agenda. In practice, Justice Ginsburg also fought for men who were subject to unjust discrimination based on their sex. Many reject her argument about Senate hurdles considering Democrats controlled congress and Harry Reid led the Senate. Last week Trump released a list of potential SCOTUS nominees. Arizona’s Senate race takes on new meaning, and attention increases on Colorado’s race. On Monday’s show I will go over how senate races will be affected, and which ones increase in significance. “There’s no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years — that’s not in the constitutional text.”. First, they supported confirming SCOTUS nominees during a presidential election year. You will see this argued non-stop. Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy created by the death of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Shortly after her confirmation by the U.S. Senate on October 26, 2020, Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath of office to Barrett in an outdoor ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. They had a bond, I think, in that they both grew up as outsiders — to different degrees — to the elites who had ruled the country: she as a Jew and woman, he as a Catholic and Italian American.”, “The two justices had central roles in addressing some of the most divisive issues of the day,” the younger Scalia continued, “including cases on abortion, same-sex marriage and who would be president. There could be a serious crisis that develops absent a full court. The second woman ever to be nominated to the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg dedicated her life and career to securing the equal treatment of women before the law and in society, concerns that informed her work on the bench. You need to back your Senators. I saw this headline last night: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last wish was NOT to be replaced until 'new president is installed' - setting up extraordinary political crisis as Mitch McConnell vows Donald Trump's nominee 'will receive a vote' in the Senate.”. Trump's Democrat rival, Joe Biden, insists the decision on her replacement must wait until after the vote. I’ll discuss all of this and much more on Monday’s program. Discussing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement doesn't 'dishonor' her, Brit Hume says The battle for Ginsburg's replacement is expected to be especially testy The case was an interesting one, in which Ginsburg’s capacity to boil issues down and explain the human significance of often arcane legal parsing were both on display. Please, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87. Ginsburg, who was a liberal champion, died on Friday at age 87, and President Trump has vowed to move as quickly as this week to appoint a justice to succeed her. I always thought they best modeled how civility through differences ought to be — and how these differences shouldn’t rob one of friendship. That is, by all accounts, what the late Justice Antonin Scalia found in Justice Ginsburg, his dear friend of many years, their many deep and abiding differences in judicial philosophy, constitutional interpretation, and the meaning of social equality and the role of the judiciary in securing it notwithstanding. See Schumer’s 2016 Tweet helpfully left up: First, it’s not the “McConnell Rule.” It’s the Biden Rule, and he even differed from Obama on it: Mr. Obama has said it is his constitutional responsibility to name a successor to Justice Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 79. 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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last wish was NOT to be replaced until 'new president is installed' - setting up extraordinary political crisis as Mitch McConnell vows Donald Trump's nominee 'will receive a vote' in the Senate, Arizona’s Senate race takes on new meaning. And Jason Paul, a motherless infant with a father able and willing to provide care for him personally, is treated as an infant not entitled to the personal care of his sole surviving parent.” The all-male SCOTUS bench decided unanimously in her client’s favour. “They were both New Yorkers,” wrote US Secretary of Labour and son to the late Justice Scalia in the Washington Post on Saturday, “close in age and liked a lot of the same things: the law, teaching, travel, music and a meal with family and friends. Posted on September 18, 2020, at 10:11 p.m. I also agree with Sen. Ted Cruz in that we need a full court. If he flips, Benedict Arnold will get lost to history in favor of Mitt Romney. Democrats overplayed their hand so badly it helped boost the midterm election results in favor of Republicans. RBG's casket will be placed in National Statuary Hall on Friday, CNN reported, in an historic event that was announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday. We were at dinner yesterday evening when I heard that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed. Many have taken to blaming Trump for this fight over her seat, but this fight wasn’t his creation, it was Ginsburg’s. On Friday, Sept. 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. They are wrong. While we Christians pray for Ginsburg’s family in their time of mourning and for our nation to weather this unavoidable fight, it’s completely acceptable to note this — in fact, your free American responsibility compels it. She was also a staunch defender and promoter of so-called “abortion rights”, which she viewed as an integral part of women’s legal and social equality. US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died aged 87. 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