Filling the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will cause a tremendous flap. And the conflict didn’t need to happen.
Everyone reading this will eventually die, much as we try to ignore that truth. Justice Ginsburg was a smart woman and obviously knew this.
She had every right to retire during the Obama administration at roughly age 80. No one would have thought less of her for doing so, most of us retire much younger than that.
She chose not to do so, I suppose because it was too fascinating to stay on the Court. And it’s likely she believed the polls which predicted a Clinton victory.
The polls were wrong and Trump won. Then it was too late and she had to try to hang in there. She almost made it but didn’t live quite long enough.
Had she lived past November 3, chances are the GOP couldn’t have mustered a majority to confirm a new Justice. She didn’t, and now they just might, and all because she made choices that, in retrospect, she probably regretted. Alas, ruing the path chosen makes for a sad death.
