Notorious RBG

This bit of news wasn’t on NPR’s All Things Considered and didn’t interrupt while I was listening to Michigan Radio until 7:00 this evening so it must have happened just after then. NPR tweeted and Daily Kos reported that …

 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, our Notorious RBG, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87. She charted a course for women’s rights and became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

I read that and said some unprintable things. Even though Moscow Mitch declared up, down, and sideways four years ago that a Supreme Court justice can’t be confirmed in an election year, he will most definitely play the double standard and confirm someone in an election year. I’m sure he has plenty of time to do so by the end of December (this would take priority over anything else he is doing – which is nothing). And knowing the nasty guy will do the nominating this will be someone who has zero regard for anyone not straight, white, male, and rich. Perhaps worse that Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Roberts. Which will make six conservatives on a nine member court.

 Even with the nasty guy gone and even if we take the Senate and control the entire legislative process there are enough people with enough money that everything President Biden does will be litigated to the Supreme Court where the legacy of Moscow Mitch and the nasty guy will have a chance to block it.

That probably includes the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission that I worked to get approved in Michigan two years ago and is about to begin work. Even though it is a part of the Michigan Constitution the GOP in Michigan has continued to litigate it, working to get it before the Supremes. And now, when they do, they’re likely to get a receptive audience. Grrr!

 

I read several Twitter feeds, though I’m not a member. Twitter continuously reminds me I’m not with a banner (I can’t make disappear) that says “Don’t miss what’s happening. People on Twitter are the first to know.” Twitter’s sidebar of top topics is where I learned about Ginsburg’s death – and I didn’t have to be a member of Twitter to do so.