What's hilarious is that the general consensus - at least as far as I understood it - was that the great fear was that a left-winger would die first. I remember people chiding the left-wing justices for not stepping down under Obama in case a Republican got elected next.
I'm not saying they were wrong! I also wish Obama had nominated far more judges, and that includes e.g. having left-wing Supremes step down once per year.
It's just that the Republicans losing one first is hilarious.
Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts, and Alito could all resign right now in protest and I'd be ecstatic. Breyer and Sotomayor as well? Even happier. Replace the entire bench, for at least 20 years, with identical clones of Ginsburg? OK, sounds like an awesome idea, give a generation of good lawyering to be replaced, slowly, with other (probably lesser) lawyers.
Actuarial tables are still a real thing. And the fact that That Shithead Scalia lost the toss doesn't mean it wasn't likely that one of the others would have.
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Date: 2016-02-14 03:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-02-14 03:08 am (UTC)It's just that the Republicans losing one first is hilarious.
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Date: 2016-02-14 03:24 am (UTC)Actuarial tables are still a real thing. And the fact that That Shithead Scalia lost the toss doesn't mean it wasn't likely that one of the others would have.