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John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd bet good money McConnell would have tried to find a way/reason to keep it open, look at all the rules making/breaking they did to fill/keep a seat empty close to elections, I'm sure they'd just come up with some other bullshit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure he would have tried, but we're dealing with massive hypotheticals at this point. Under your argument, we should not have a justice at any point ever step down because McConnell would try to block a nomination. Yes, he would try. Doesn't change the fact that the best move was for her to step down at the beginning of the term.

We should honestly be pushing for justices getting on in years and having health issues to step down at the beginning of presidential terms regardless.