I think the only thing Trump is complimenting is her timing and how her death will enable him to steal an election he would otherwise lose.
Ha! That’s actually a good point. I hadn’t thought of that.
How do you figure? I see this as neutral at best for him.
This.
An open seat will drive turn out and get Republicans to hold their nose and vote for Trump. It worked in 2016.
Fill the seat before the election and say goodbye to Gardner, McSally, Tillis, and Collins.
And maybe even Lindsey “Hold the tape” Graham.
Sigh. First of all RIP and respect for her distinguished career. But yes she really should have retired after 2012 given her age and health issues. The upcoming shitstorm is likely to cause huge damage to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court though it is also an opportunity for a handful of Republican senators to make history and nudge US politics back a little towards sanity.
I kinda wish they thought that way, but I think the GOP’s Pavlovian response of “A SCOTUS seat is open, OMFG, we must fill it right away” is too far ingrained for that.
Democrats shatter the ActBlue site’s donation records in the hours after Ginsburg’s death.
Link to a New York Times piece. The salient piece quoted below:
Democratic donors gave more money online in the 9 p.m. hour after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died — $6.2 million — than in any other single hour since ActBlue, the donation-processing site, was launched 16 years ago.
Then donors broke the site’s record again in the 10 p.m. hour when donors gave another $6.3 million — more than $100,000 per minute.
I’d say this has energized the Democratic base pretty effectively.
Proof again that Murkowski is the best Pub Senator. I really wish she runs for President in 2024.
My wife and I were part of that donation blitz!
I actually think sweeping this under the rug as soon as possible may be the better thing, even if not a good thing. If the vacancy remains during the 2020 election, it will motivate more conservatives to vote.
Sadly the opposite isn’t generally true for Democrat voters. They aren’t as motivated to turn out in numbers. Actually, I think many Democratic voters are against ‘judicial activism’ too. It’s generally a dirty word, no matter who you ask.
Get it swept under the rug, and move on.
Quick side note: BTW ‘judicial activism’ (according to my law dictionary and community college law class) means replacing long-established precedents with your bizarre personal philosophies. Believe it or not, that would be original intent now. (Of course the shoe is on the other foot, 40-50 years later.) And what about just upholding precedent, whether you agree with it or not? That’s called ‘judicial restraint’. Look it up if you don’t believe me. 
I’m late to the party as usual, but I just donated as well. Thanks for inspiring me to contribute.
Trump said a few years ago he was going to nominate Amy Barrett for Ginsburg’s seat
She does not have the traditional Ivy league background but I doubt that matters . I would be surprised if she is not the pick
Heck, I even called my senators (Burr and Tillis) last night, not that I really think it will do much good.
Now I need to decide if I’m going to trust my absentee ballot to the whims of the USPS, or if I’m going to drop it off at the County Board of Elections myself.
My husband says, “he’s just doing his job.”
I tend to agree with this line of thinking. I recall (and don’t quote me on my timeline) around 2011 or 2012 a discussion about how it would be a generation before gay marriage was allowed across the country, and what do you know, it only took 3 or 4 years. Yes, the court was different then, but I think the example holds. The ACA has survived challenges. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have not as yet turned out to be the nightmares they were predicted to be (see below). Call me crazy, innocent or stupid (or all three!) but I still believe that the country will slowly but surely continue to move toward a country that is more and more fair for all. There will and have been setbacks (I hope we all know what I’m talking about ::cough:: Trump ::cough::), but that is what I still have faith in.
As for Kavanaugh/Gorsuch, others probably have a better idea of where they lie along the ideological spectrum based on their rulings, but so far, saying that we are fucked for a generation now that another conservative (see below) will be added to the court is too pessimistic for my thinking. And the other justices won’t live forever.
As for Trump’s nomination, he needs to be bold here. I hear people like Steve Bannon insisting he is a shoo-in in November, but I would think his campaign people can see the writing on the wall at this point. Trump is out there ramping up his Trumpian hatred, but it’s not moving him in the polls. His “popularity” is low as it always has been. So, he should nominate a middle-of-the- road candidate that some on the fence voters who lean a bit liberal could accept, and hope that a slowly improving economy and some good news on a Covid vaccine could push him to maybe a 30% chance instead of the current 22% chance, using FiveThirtyEight as an example. Those odds in the scheme of things ain’t too bad for Trump at this point.
I still remember her heartbreaking comment after Clinton introduced her to the press on that sunny June day, where she said she wished her mom could have been alive to see the day when baby girls were valued as much as boys. 
I found the exact quote: “I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are cherished as much as sons.”
nm. Misread…
Moreover, if Republicans actually have a chance to vote on a judicial nominee and pass on it, then conservatives would wonder why they’re not using the power they have now.
I have a smidgen of hope that Republican senators from more moderate states might back off - Susan Collins comes to mind. She is clearly not being served well by holding Trump’s jock strap as of late. Maybe there are a few other GOP senators like her.
Once the election is over nothing will stop them. Collins can’t be trusted, win or lose she will revert to form as will the rest of them.
Understood: I’m thinking more in the short term. I don’t know if Collins is going to go along with McConnell or Graham wanting to ram through another right wing Supreme Court justice.
At this point, I’m not sure how much it even matters. The damage inflicted on the judiciary in these last 3 1/2 years is breathtaking. In fact there were six more justices added to the judiciary in just the past few weeks.
I hope those who sat out in 2016 because Hillary was the worst nominee are happy now because it wouldn’t matter if they elected the Jewish miracle worker himself. It will take years - minimum - to undo the damage to the courts that the GOP has inflicted, and you can bet that whatever progressive agenda we want to put forth now is going to run into a right wing judicial brick wall.