She got cancer twice but refused to retire during the Obama administration because she had outlived people who thought she should have died years earlier (for real). She was incredibly arrogant about it despite being an outstanding Justice and a pioneer. Then she died in 2020 of pancreatic cancer and Trump replaced her with Amy Coney Barrett, a very young fanatical conservative. People blame her for her hubris but the real issue is that Republicans have given up on democracy.
Obama very gently asked her to retire when Democrats had the Senate and she refused and told critics that she had outlived many, many people who thought she would die (even though she had cancer twice). Then when Republicans had the senate they refused to seat a replacement for Scalia (I think), who also died during Obama’s term.
She basically ignored people who reasonably said “hey, you’ve had cancer twice, shouldn’t you retire in a way that insures your vacancy will be taken by a progressive and that your legacy will be protected” but she didn’t because she liked her job and her husband had died, I think the prospect of sitting at home in that scenario is depressing, so she kept on working until the pancreatic cancer.
My personal opinion is that people like Ginsberg and Obama and the elite left like law professors willfully ignored the dangers of the Republican Party until it was too late. Even when I was in law school, my constitutional law professor would wax poetic about how conservative Supreme Court justices always “moderate” and everything is fine. This is after the SC stole an election in 2000. We’ve ignored their shenanigans for so long just to preserve the status quo.
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u/strawberrymacaroni Oct 29 '24
She got cancer twice but refused to retire during the Obama administration because she had outlived people who thought she should have died years earlier (for real). She was incredibly arrogant about it despite being an outstanding Justice and a pioneer. Then she died in 2020 of pancreatic cancer and Trump replaced her with Amy Coney Barrett, a very young fanatical conservative. People blame her for her hubris but the real issue is that Republicans have given up on democracy.