re: Hillary Clinton: Trump exercising 'partisan power' instead of honoring Ginsburg's wishes!

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Hillary Clinton: Trump exercising 'partisan power' instead of honoring Ginsburg's wishes!

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I absolutely fricking hate the state our country is in right now.


It’s too depressing to even talk about.

The hyper partisan psychotic behavior of our leaders and the brutally ignorant and massively vocal behavior of our fellow citizens iscompletely depressing.

Add in the cover by the media and the state of the economy behind held hostage but ignorant barley literate mayors and governors and it’s just too much.

Im not saying it’s enough to consider suicide but it makes me terrified for the world my kids are going to grow up in.

I know, every generation says that, but sometimes a generation is correct.

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If she wanted it that way, she should have died when Obama was in office

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This is cruel, heartless, bereft of compassion.

However, she COULD have retired while Obama was in office and allowed him to choose her successor. She would have enjoyed a nice, 5 or so year retirement had she chose that option instead of clinging to that seat like a drowning person does a life ring.

SCOTUS justices retire all the time (it isn't the rule to die in office, especially pushing 90), it was the rule before Rehnquist going back half a century.

Souter retired at age 70 (still alive at 81), Kennedy retired in his early 80s (and I believe in relatively decent health for his age). Scalia was still in his 70s, albeit barely (died), and Rehnquist died in his early 80s (both in office), but then you have to go back to Fred Vinson who was a relatively young 63 at death in 1953. Most justices after that enjoyed anywhere from 5 to 10 years in retirement.

O'Connor has been retired almost 15 years and still alive at 90. Stevens, Powell, Burger and White all lived about a decade in retirement. Lefty Blackmun lived about 5 years in retirement (died in his early 90s). Marshall was early 80s at retirement and enjoyed a couple of years of that.

Ginsburg's "wishes" to be replaced by a Democrat were not in alignment with actions she took, particularly during the Obama administration.