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Death of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy [after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia] should not be filled until we have a new president.
— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, February 13, 2016
My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.
— Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg —Her deathbed wish just before finally succumbing to cancer on September 18, 2020
The not unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg represents much more than the death of a single Justice. This woman, this jurist…this unabashedly “liberal”-to-”progressive” champion of both women’s and black peoples’ civil and human rights, was one of the very last bulwarks standing between Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s complete and absolute domination of this nation-state’s political, economic, social and cultural direction for the foreseeable future.
Justice Ginsburg’s death clears the way for outright right-wing, “conservative” control of all of our futures, from those people being born just today under the aegis of Donald Trump to those of us, like myself, who were born…
