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John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
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The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Why do you think they would've filled her spot when they didn't fill the other one with Merrick Garland? She protected her spot or they would've held it up until Trump.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    She could have retired at any time, including right after Obama was elected. The Republicans couldn't have held the spot open for years. It would have become a major election issue.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'd bet good money McConnell would have tried to find a way/reason to keep it open, look at all the rules making/breaking they did to fill/keep a seat empty close to elections, I'm sure they'd just come up with some other bullshit

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm sure he would have tried, but we're dealing with massive hypotheticals at this point. Under your argument, we should not have a justice at any point ever step down because McConnell would try to block a nomination. Yes, he would try. Doesn't change the fact that the best move was for her to step down at the beginning of the term.

    We should honestly be pushing for justices getting on in years and having health issues to step down at the beginning of presidential terms regardless.

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