# Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 18, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957 "2020-09-18T23:34:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/332 "2020-09-27T04:53:22Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > (post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 876000 hours unless flagged) Criminy! 876,000 hours is 100 years. ---
**Author:** ![razordance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47774/32.png) [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/333 "2020-09-27T07:39:31Z")
I’m sure she fought as hard for life as she could, but cancer don’t care shit for law or politics. ---
**Author:** ![razordance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47774/32.png) [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/334 "2020-09-27T07:44:20Z")
Well, there are limits, there. For instance, the filibuster rule is not part of the Constitution, merely a procedural rule of the Senate – the Constitution says only that each house of Congress shall make its own rules – and there is no conceivable legally arguable way the SCOTUS could stop the Senate from abolishing it. ---
**Author:** ![razordance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47774/32.png) [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/335 "2020-09-27T07:45:55Z")
Actually, I have considered that Barack himself would make a very good WH Chief of Staff. There cannot be any aspect of the job that he does not know backwards and forwards. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/336 "2020-09-27T16:09:22Z")
Oh, that would be sweeeet! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/337 "2020-09-27T18:06:15Z")
I _really_ doubt he would want the job, and Joe would not want a younger, more-beloved ex-POTUS overshadowing him, as Obama inevitably would. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/338 "2020-09-27T19:24:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I _really_ doubt he would want the job, and Joe would not want a younger, more-beloved ex-POTUS overshadowing him, as Obama inevitably would.- I’m also sure he would never want the job-- hell, he probably never wants to set foot in the WH again. But I like thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![urbanredneck2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5f8ce5/32.png) [@urbanredneck2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urbanredneck2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/339 "2020-09-28T20:10:36Z")
You think you all are mad? [Check out this video of this woman SCREAMING](https://wdtprs.com/2020/09/video-unhinged-karens-spittle-flecked-obscenity-laced-nutty-on-hearing-that-justice-ginsberg-died-language-warning/) about how mad she is the Ginsburg died. Yes, its making alot of the conservative outlets but what the heck was she thinking putting something like this out on the web? Its had 4.4 million views. It reminds me of [THIS VIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs) where back in January 2016 a woman is screaming as Trump is inaugurated. BTW, In looking at the supreme court over the years rulings and the court in general have always leaned towards the liberal side. Gays earned the right to marry. Abortion rights have been upheld. I think this whole thing is political showmanship from both sides. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/340 "2020-09-29T14:06:59Z")
SCOTUS has handed down a _lot_ of conservative decisions in recent years, too, on gun control, campaign finance reform, voting rights, consumer protection, the separation of church and state, immigration, etc. And those more liberal decisions you mention depended on a swing voter on the court (for many years, Justice Anthony Kennedy) who’s not there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/341 "2023-03-17T13:12:29Z")
Bumped. > **[Supreme Court remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg](https://www.aol.com/news/supreme-court-remembering-justice-ruth-120603870.html)** > > Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion for women's rights whose death ahead of the 2020 election allowed the Supreme Court to become more conservative, will be remembered during ceremonies Friday at the high court. Ginsburg, who served as a justice... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/342 "2024-05-31T13:48:02Z")
And again. > **[Would Ruth Bader Ginsburg Have Stepped Down From SCOTUS If She Hadn't Been...](https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/would-ruth-bader-ginsburg-have-stepped-down-from-scotus-if-she-hadnt-been-harassed-about-retirement/)** > > The late RBG may have been so annoyed that people were calling for her to retire from the high court that she stubbornly stayed put. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/343 "2024-05-31T16:16:32Z")
I’m not sure what value’s left in continuing to second guess her decision. She’s four years in the ground at this point. She rolled the dice that she’d make it until another Democratic administration, and lost. And here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/344 "2024-05-31T16:42:32Z")
If this is actually the case, then this was really petulant of her. _I would have stepped down and let a similar justice replace me and safeguard this or that, but I won’t because you’re nagging me._ ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957/345 "2024-06-01T05:29:00Z")
Well RBG, your legacy is being used as toilet paper by what the court turned into after you died of spite so… I guess you showed them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957.md?page=16)