As expected, President Trump has made it clear that he will quickly nominate someone to fill RBG’s seat, and expects GOP senators to get in line
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of “complications from metastatic pancreas cancer,” the Supreme Court announced on Friday night. The longtime justice, liberal stalwart, and feminist icon was 87 years old. She reportedly died surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., and will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Is Obamacare now doomed? At HuffPost, Jonathan Cohn examines the possible ramifications for the Affordable Care Act now that Ginsburg won’t be there to defend it at the Supreme Court — highlighting the lawsuit against the act due to be heard by the Court on November 10: [W]hile the loss of Justice Ginsburg is gutting and lacerating and brutally sad, her entire life and work has been in service to the idea that the rest of us are in fact capable of being allies and helpers and boosters and supporters, and also that the generations that are disconsolate tonight, for the lack of a hero, are themselves capable of stepping into her teeny-tiny, mighty, 3-inch-heeled, terrifyingly fabulous shoes and taking up the work she didn’t begin but merely inherited from those...
Ginsburg foresaw the political battle her death would produce. She reportedly weighed in strongly on behalf of holding her seat open and a Democratic victory in November.“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg said before her death, according to a statement released by one of her granddaughters, Clara Spera.
“The polarization in the country was already a 12 on a one-to-10 scale. It was already off the charts. This is going to push it up to 15,” said Neil Newhouse, a longtime Republican pollster. “This energizes both liberals and conservatives, it ratchets up the intensity, and it puts a focus on what’s at stake in this election.”David Axelrod, who served as the top political strategist to Obama, concurred. “This is another log in an already roaring fire,” Axelrod said.
Jones also considers possible picks Paul Clement, Tom Cotton, Noel Francisco, and Sarah Pitlyk — read about those potential nominees here. President Trump’s response There are already reports that President Trump will be naming a replacement soon: The overall dynamics in the Senate The Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere offered some context on the Senate complexities in a Twitter thread:
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