Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated for Cancer on Pancreas

Perhaps it is time for Ruth to retire.

 

Just hold on until 2020 Ruth, because you know you cant nominate a supreme court nominee during an election year!

 

Good luck RBG! I have a lot of respect for her even apart from the current political theatre. I do hope she can hold on till 2021 for my sake, but if she can't that's alright. When nature calls, you go. We'll figure something out.

It's up to the Senate to confirm the nominee and you know McConnell will want to confirm, even on the last day of Trump's presidency. She'd have to hang on until 2021.

 

Damn that's sad. I hope she can recover. Even if you don't agree with her positions, she has been a public servant and role model for a lot of women in this country for a very long time.

I think it's distasteful to be gleeful about her death even if it is tongue-in-cheek.

I wish justices would be more willing to give up their seat at a younger age. Seems like it would have made sense in 2012 at the beginning of Obama's 2nd term. One of the problems is if you don't take the opportunity to retire during an administration aligning with your political beliefs, you run the risk of getting stuck in 8 more years at an extremely advanced age... with RBG that could potentially be 83-91 years old..

 

Her first cancer was like 20 years ago. She already beat pancreatic cancer once in 2009 and she beat lung cancer just last year.

The announcement was that the treatment she had been undergoing was successful and the tumor is gone. It's already over, before you even knew it started.

She's like 6 and 0 against cancer at this point.

It takes a lot more than cancer to take out The Notoreous RBG. Kavanaugh is going to retire while RBG is still chugging along with a full case load at 120 years old. She is essentially Deadpool.

 

She's one tough lady. I wouldn't bet against her.

 

It makes you look edgy and cool. Keep at it hoss.

 

Bet against her with regards to what? Escaping death? You do realize that the death rate among human beings is 100%, right?

 

Yes. That's exactly what I meant.

 

Jesus died. And then rose again from the dead. Is that who you are referring to?

 

Ginsburg should barter with Trump ... Step down provided a centrist is put in her place.

 

I'm just going to leave this here.

 

If she were to pass you better buck up. For the SCOTUS to go 6-3 isn't good. The political fight behind the next Trump Judge in that case is going to be fought over.

Not if it was 6-3 liberals or 6-3 conservatives. That's not good for the country and will only add to the growing extreme partisanship nationally...and you know a 6-3 conservative dominance is not at all representative of the country.

You are then going to see Democrats try to increase the number of SCOTUS judges if she were to pass between now and Trump's term, this isn't even unprecedented either and we've already seen talks of this so its an idea floating around.

Both parties need to stop with the "Let's see what we can get away with while we have power" game. It would be a nice gesture from the GOP if they offer to replace her with Garland but...yeah, that's more of a dream.

 

Smilies for the probable imminent death of a supreme court justice?

 

2.1/ 10

 

Indeed.