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[bewithus4u]

Democrats highlight IVF issue ahead of elections as Senate GOP blocks IVF bill again

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab in Houston, laboratory staff prepare small petri dishes filled with 1-7-day-old embryos. Cells will be extracted from each embryo to determine viability. As Democrats highlight the issue in the run-up to the November election, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to block a bill ensuring access to in vitro…

[odinsblog]

And right on schedule, Mitch McConnell has returned to block the now-deadlocked Judicial committee from selecting a replacement for the ailing Feinstein. So Democrats are now successfully blocked from appointing any of Biden’s judicial nominees to the bench. Feinstein stepping down and allowing California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, to name her replacement is one easy way to end this Republican farce, but she won’t do what’s best for her constituents. (source)

Feinstein has been missing in action for months now. Her absence is materially harming the nomination and appointment of judges—judges who could counter the radical zealots that Trump seated. If she cannot do the job any longer (and there is a lot more to be said on that front), then she needs to make room for someone else who can.

I understand that a lot of Blue MAGA sycophants do not like to read, see or hear anything even slightly negative about RBG, but the truth is that she had cancer and knew that her health was failing.

Despite two previous bouts with metastatic pancreatic cancer and public pleas from Democratic law scholars, she decided not to retire in 2013 or 2014 when Obama and a Democratic-controlled Senate could have appointed and confirmed her successor. Waiting until Hillary could replace her was a selfish and incredibly risky gambit, and in the end, she lost. Now everyone else is paying the price for her hubris.

Had to be said. Sorry.

I’m not necessarily his biggest fan, but at least Stephen Breyer understood that when a Supreme Court Justice decides to retire, and who will pick their replacement, is an important part of post-electoral politics.

Look, I’m a BIG believer in going hard and doing all the good you can, while you can. This goes doubly for people in positions of power, like politicians. Because guess what? Tomorrow is not promised to anyone.

This is another reason why I have such a problem with “pragmatism”… we won’t always win, but we must always fight for what is right. Settling for what you can get is one thing, but deliberately aiming low so as not to make waves or upset the conservative base is entirely different.

So IF you can get more good things™ done today, then you should go for it while the getting is still good. Time is a luxury and incrementalism favors the wealthy and powerful. Republican strategist Lee Atwater understood that stalling and delaying on a political outcome was just as good as winning the battle. Because stalling and delaying, with only minor cosmetic changes, maintains the status quo.

Democrats need to understand that “triangulating” and “pragmatically” waiting for a better time is precisely what Republicans want. It’s acquiescing.

I believe in what MLKjr called the fierce urgency of now, not the fierce urgency of pragmatically waiting for conservatives to decide on when would be a better time for progress.

It’s super easy to be “pragmatic” and wait just a bit longer when it’s not YOUR rights that are being denied and trampled on.

Anyway, Dianne Feinstein needs to retire. Now.

[yurious-george]

idk if you’re American so this isn’t meant to be harsh or overly critical, but Roe being overturned was not a “state overturn”, that’s not something that really exists. SCOTUS can overturn previous decisions with new ones, but often the concept of judicial precedent/settled law is taken into consideration, especially regarding cases like Roe that had become highly politicized after the original ruling.

Regardless, that post by sunfortune is blatantly incorrect. Biden (or any president) does not have the power to remove SCOTUS justices, or assign new ones if a seat is not opened due to a justice retiring or dying (SCOTUS seats are lifetime appointments). Trump was “lucky” to get three SCOTUS seat openings during his one term as President (Scalia died in 2016 under Obama, but McConnell blocked all of Obama’s appointees, Anthony Kennedy stepped down in 2018, and RBG died in 2020 very close to the election), as some presidents who’ve served two terms don’t even get that many. SCOTUS justices can be impeached by congress if it’s been found theyve acted unethically, but it takes a trial and a two-thirds vote to convict by the senate to actually remove a SCOTUS justice. That being said, the Republican Party has ensured that the court has become highly politicized (SCOTUS appointees are ideally supposed to be neutral and not partial to either party) and even though Thomas fits the bill as an unethical SCOTUS justice that essentially takes bribes to rule certain ways in certain cases, republicans have a slight majority in the House of Representatives and they will not push for him to be impeached, and republicans in the senate would (most likely) not vote to convict.

I’m just saying this because this is vital context that sunfortune has left out. Criticizing Biden is fine but it’s blatant misinformation and a gross misunderstanding of how SCOTUS works. Additionally, the current SCOTUS has blocked progressive legislation that Biden has tried to pass such as student loan forgiveness. They’re not in his pocket.

Yeah, I DID remember there was a bunch of stuff that wasn't Biden's fault and that the post was majorly incorrect, but the details eluded me. Something that has gone completely overlooked is just how much power SCOTUS holds, and how the system of checks and balances works; democratic presidents have consistently held less power and passed fewer progressive bills than republican presidents due to the veto power of SCOTUS. I remember how Obama struggled immensely with passing healthcare bills back in the 2010s because of the same issues. If we want a better president, we need a better SCOTUS.

Thank you for the fact check, nonnie! Leaving reblogs on so people can share corrected information.

[anotherpapercut]

tell me more about rbg

my main thing with rbg is that like. undeniably she had an incredible and positive impact on our jurisprudence. I really cant overstate the importance of even some of her dissents, where her opinion was not in the majority. that said

1. her jurisprudence is far from perfect. she had an iffy track record on things like incarceration probably in part due to the particular privilege that comes with being a wealthy white woman and it's weird to act like she was perfect and never made any mistakes because like she was a human person

2. the girlbossification of rbg seems to have created a sort of feedback loop that ended in her having an ego so large that she genuinely seemed to think no one could do her job as well as or better than her? which is weird bc Sotomayor was already on the court and already kicking ass but w/e. she literally said in interviews when people asked her about retirement that she didn't think anyone could take her place

3. this absolutely fucked us and if you think it didn't you're fucking kidding yourself. if she had retired, oh I don't know maybe in 2009 when there was a democratic president and democratic Senate supermajority, she would've been promptly replaced by another liberal judge. even if we assume the Republicans would still block Obama from filling Scalia's seat in 2016, that would leave the court at 5-4 in favor of conservatives instead of the 6-3 we have now and w the way the supreme court works that could mean it could have taken DECADES less to claw back to a democratic majority

people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about will look at that and say "well either way it's a conservative majority so it doesn't matter" this argument completely falls apart the second you actually inspect the voting records of these people over the past few terms. there have been many occasions where one or more conservative justices have sided with the liberals. with a 5-4 court MANY of the extremely shitty decisions that have come down recently would've gone the other way

again people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about may say "well roe would've still been overturned" and to that I say how fucking selfish and shortsighted do you have to be to think that just because ONE case would've gone the same way nothing else is important? do you guys have any idea about any of the other cases they've taken in the past few years??? this argument is just so idiotic I can barely even entertain it long enough to respond

okay anyway TL;DR rbg was obviously important and obviously affected great positive change in this country. but she knew when she accepted this job that the entire fucking country was depending on her. she chose not to retire knowing there was a significant chance she could die under a Republican administration and leave us with an extremely fucked up court and she did it anyway out of sheer egoism and that disgusts me! ultimately she doomed us to a court that's going to be impossible to come back from for decades without major reform. she did this knowingly. she knowingly endangered the country out of vanity. and she should absolutely be fucking held accountable for that shit

[ginnyrules27]

Okay I’m going to say this as nicely as I can.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MESS AMERICA HAS ENTERED INTO!

Okay now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, let me explain.

Instagram was being Instagram and showed me a cute shirt that said ‘vote like Ruth sent you’. The top comment? ‘RBG not stepping down during the Obama administration is part of the reason we’re in this mess’

I know attention spans are shrinking but seriously? Were you not paying attention when the tortoise in charge of the senate refused to do his job and allow hearings for Obama’s nominee after Scalia died, which left a seat open for Trump to fill. RBG was aware and mentally cognizant of the fact that stepping under Obama would have potentially given Trump TWO seats!

We can’t fault the woman for when she died, and the fact that she lasted until the eleventh hour of election year is commendable! She couldn’t choose when she died, and if she wanted to choose to spend her final days doing the job she fought like hell to get to because of all the people who looked down on her for being a woman, for being a mother, and for being Jewish then she shouldn’t be judged for that.

Blame McConnell for both refusing to do his job and refusing to stick to the precedent he set by the former (on a side note, he pulled this shit with Feinstein too, that’s why she died in office because McConnell was going to block all Dems committee noms to replace her if she resigned), blame Trump for stealing a SCOTUS seat and not picking Garland as a good faith gesture (I know it’s Trump so that had a minuscule chance of happening but still), blame Kennedy for retiring only under the condition Cavanhaugh was the nominee to replace him, hell if you want to be petty blame Scalia for dying and causing this mess.

But blame RBG? I don’t think so.

[ripplesofaqua]

please, for the love of everything good left in this county. for all the people who have been hurt and killed, and for those who will be hurt and killed if we don’t do anything. please, please vote, if you are in the US and able to, and haven’t done so yet. vote now, as soon as you can! don’t wait till election day. if you’re doing an absentee ballot, send it in tomorrow! and honestly, at this point, try and drop it off at a legitimate drop-box. or hand it in in-person to an election office. Who knows how long it will take to be received by mail, at this point

[nemmica]

bad day, cats incoming

[collapsedsquid]

“These dems man, they’re so corrupt, they leave their positions and make millions on speeches, books and high-paying salaries in the revolving door” bro I fucking wish these dems would do that instead of fossilizing in place, if RBG had fucking done that we’d be much better and Feinstein still has a chance before she needs the assistance of taxidermists to hold her senate seat.

[plannedparenthood]

Thank You, RBG

We are heartbroken. Supreme Court Justice and gender equality hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, Sept. 18. Her death is a painful loss for our country. She was a fierce and unapologetic warrior for equality, and her achievements are endless. As we mourn we’re also embracing our gratitude for her service to our country.

Cherishing RBG’s Legacy

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg committed her life to protecting the rights, freedoms, and health of people across the country — in particular women, communities of color, and others whose voices too often go unheard. She was a true trailblazer who inspired millions of girls and women to fight through sexism and discrimination to make American a better place to work, to live, and to love. 

Her powerful words over the years, including her razor-sharp dissents, helped push our nation toward freedom and opportunity for all. Her spirit, values, and words will be deeply missed.

A Modern Revolutionary

Some revolutionaries shook up a society with anger burning and guns blazing. Others studied hard, knocked down an unfair system one peg at a time, and spoke truth to power while wearing a lace collar. That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

She got two mottoes from her mother, Celia Bader (who marched for women’s suffrage): 

“Be independent,” take care of yourself without being financially beholden to a man, and

“Be a lady,” don't allow emotions like anger to be so consuming they get in your way.

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw anything repugnant — like systemic discrimination — she would get straight to work. It wasn’t easy. Over decades, Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced a slew of indignities. But she harnessed courage and resolve to strategically break down America’s sexist, unethical laws and institutions. 

To honor the Notorious RBG, we’ve collected our seven favorite facts about her life and her legacy.

7) RBG was defiant in the face of entrenched sexism in college and law school.

Most colleges didn’t accept women in the 1950s, and Ruth Bader was one of the first to break the gender barrier. At Cornell University, she was sexually harassed by a professor, who offered answers to a test in exchange for sex. She confronted him: “I went to his office and I said, ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?’ And that was the end of that.” 

At Harvard Law School, she and the eight other women in her class of more than 500 students were ogled, ignored in the classroom, excluded from the library, and asked by the dean how they could possibly justify taking a seat away from a man. But that hostile environment didn’t stop her. 

She fought it with brain power and superhuman physical endurance. She was so obsessed with the law that she’d regularly stay up until dawn studying. Well into her 80s, she retained her reputation for working until 3 a.m. and living on just two hours of sleep. 

While she was kicking butt at the top of her classes, she was also taking care of her young daughter and sick husband. Martin (Marty) Ginsburg contracted testicular cancer and had extensive radiation therapy, which kept him from going to his own law school classes. So, RBG organized his friends to attend his classes, worked through their notes with Marty, and typed up Marty’s papers — all while doing her own schoolwork on top of it. 

She tied for first in her class from Columbia Law School in 1959. She also was the first person to become a member of both the prestigious Harvard Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review — one of many of her unprecedented feats. She proved to those elite schools that a woman could succeed.

6) RBG showed the world what a partnership looks like in a husband-wife relationship.

Ruth Bader met Marty Ginsburg while they were both at Cornell University, and they forged an equal partnership from the beginning. He learned to cook so she didn’t have to. Later, he lobbied for her seats on the Court of Appeals in D.C. and on the Supreme Court. And he gave up his law firm in New York to follow her to Washington — a shocking move at the time. 

Here’s how she put it at her 1993 Senate confirmation hearing:

“I surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams of equal citizenship alive. I have had the great good fortune to share life with a partner truly extraordinary for his generation. A man who believed at age 18 when we met that a woman’s work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man’s. I became a lawyer when women were not wanted by most members of the legal profession. I became a lawyer because Marty supported that choice unreservedly.”

5.) RBG won a whopping five cases before the Supreme Court — and they all advanced the Constitutional protection of equal rights for all Americans.

As smart and accomplished as Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, no law firm would hire her after she graduated from law school. Law firms slammed the door in her face time after time because they only hired men. She realized that “being a woman was an impediment.”

As Ginsburg navigated the legal working world in the 1960s, she saw how thousands of state and federal laws were treating women as second-class citizens. At that time, most states’ laws allowed employment termination for pregnancy, and let banks deny credit to women without a male co-signer. The Supreme Court had rejected every challenge to laws that treated women worse than men.

All this gender discrimination fueled Ginsburg’s drive for social justice. In the early 1970s, she followed the strategy of NAACP civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who helped dismantle Jim Crow laws case by case over many years — leading to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in schools in 1954. Like Marshall, Ginsburg centered her arguments on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says all persons should be treated equally under the law.

Throughout the ‘70s, Ginsburg led the ACLU’s Women's Rights Project, for which she argued and won five landmark gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. As she said in the 2018 documentary RBG: "I knew that I was speaking to men who didn't think there was such a thing as gender-based discrimination, and my job was to tell them it really exists.”

These cases set the foundation for the country’s laws against sex discrimination, and helped eliminate being male as the criteria for employment, pay, and benefits:

Two cases in 1975 and 1979 established the requirement that women serve on juries, recognizing that they should enjoy both the benefits and the responsibilities of our judicial system.

“The vaunted woman's privilege viewed against history's backdrop simply reflects and perpetuates a certain way of thinking about women. Women traditionally were deemed lesser citizens.”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Duren v. Missouri, 1979)

An employment benefits case in 1973 required the U.S. military to equally distribute family-based benefits for service members regardless of sex.

“In asking the Court to declare sex a suspect criterion, we urge a position forcibly stated in 1837 by Sara Grimke, noted abolitionist and advocate of equal rights for men and women. She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.'”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973)

Two cases in 1974 and 1975 threw out gender-based distinctions in survivors’ benefits, granting widowers the same benefits as widows. RBG argued that while giving widows special treatment sounded nice, it wasn’t. Withholding benefits to widowers devalued the work of their deceased wives.

“A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 1975)

4) At her confirmation hearings, RBG openly declared that abortion access is a Constitutional right.

At her 1993 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed what it looks like to uphold constitutional rights. Unlike recent Supreme Court nominees, she affirmatively declared the Constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. When Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO) grilled her about her views on abortion, she declared:

“But you asked me about my thinking about equal protection versus individual autonomy, and my answer to you is it's both. This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when Government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”

3) RBG wrote the historic decision ruling that state-funded schools must admit women.

In 1996, Justice Ginsburg wrote the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, which ruled that the Virginia Military Institute’s men-only admission policy violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Justice Ginsburg destroyed the Institute’s argument that its program wasn’t suitable for women. Instead, she wrote that:

“[G]eneralizations about ‘the way women are,’ estimates of what is appropriate for most women, no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.”

The school has admitted women since then, and — as Justice Ginsburg predicted — they have made the school proud.

2) RBG’s dissent from the majority in Lilly Ledbetter’s case led to the passage a fair pay law.

In 2007, Justice Ginsburg dissented in the ruling against Lilly Ledbetter — a tire factory employee who learned, decades into her tenure, that she was being paid much less than men in the exact same supervisory role: She was making $3,727 per month, while her male counterparts were making between $4,286 and $5,236 per month. However, she lost the case because the Civil Rights Act had a statute of limitations for reporting on discrimination. 

In her scathing dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that gender discrimination can be hidden for a long time and “the ball is in Congress’s court” to change the rule. In 2009, Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which extended the Civil Rights Act’s statute of limitations and guarantees women equal pay for equal work.

1.) RBG put the smack down on TRAP laws in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. 

In the landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case in 2016, the Supreme Court — including Justice Ginsburg — ruled that two abortion restrictions in Texas were unconstitutional because they would shut down most clinics in the state and cause Texans an “undue burden” on access to safe, legal abortion. The case exposed the lie that anti-abortion politicians have been peddling for years: that it’s somehow “safer” when the state imposes medically unnecessary, onerous targeted restrictions against abortion providers (TRAP) laws. 

In her concurring opinion to the majority, Justice Ginsburg wrote:

“Given those realities [that keep abortion access out of reach], it is beyond rational belief that H.B. 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law ‘would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions’... When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners... at great risk to their health and safety.”

With this historic decision, the Court reaffirmed the constitutional right to access legal abortion. This decision was a triumph for abortion access. And when one of the restrictions that Ginsburg helped strike down came up in another lawsuit this year, Ginsburg again helped lead the Court to protecting abortion access in a major Supreme Court victory for reproductive rights.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose for all of us. How will we work together to rise for her?

From day one, Justice Ginsburg recognized our constitutional right to control our bodies and our destinies. That is a legacy that cannot and must not depart with her. 

Justice Ginsburg stood up for us. Now it’s our turn. 

Follow Planned Parenthood at facebook.com/PlannedParenthood and twitter.com/PPFA to stay updated on how to get involved. Together, we will rise. 

By Miriam at PPFA

[thisisstarfleet]

Attention US followers. If you have a GOP senator, start calling them NOW and make clear that if Obama was denied a chance to have his SCOTUS nominee voted on for almost a full year, Trump doesn't get to have his nominee confirmed right now either. RBG's seat stays empty until after January 20th.

If they take advantage of this, we're completely fucked for 30+ years

[dhaaruni]

Since we're doing this discourse again because Roe v. Wade has like 2 months left of life: Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have retired in 2013 when we had a Democratic Senate with a Democrat in the White House, but she didn't.

In 2016, everybody KNEW that RBG hadn't retired and we had a 4-4 Supreme Court thanks to McConnell holding Scalia's seat open, but despite that, so many of the Cool Kids on Twitter played the "both sides are the same" game, and now refuse to admit they have blood on their hands since Trump won the presidency and Roe is almost certainly gone due to the 6-3 Court.

Like, you aren't doing anything by tweeting about the selfishness of a dead woman or never shutting up about how the female presidential candidate who openly begged you to vote for her if only for the courts was a horrible candidate. These people aren't trying to make any salient political points, they're just gloating at all of RBG, Hillary Clinton, and their overwhelmingly female supporters, and I'm so done with it.

Just like, log off and go volunteer for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot and ensure that Republicans don't chip away at any more of our civil rights. That does infinitely more good for this country than endlessly ridiculing the 60-year-old white ladies with RBG coffee mugs and those knitted pink pussy hats!!

[madamspeaker]

I think it’s just sad that people now go after RBG, saying it is her fault because she was "too narcissistic to retire" while Obama was President. This woman dedicated literally her whole life to the public and that’s how people thank her. Wow…

Those blaming RBG are invariably the same people who either stayed at home in 2016, or wrote in another name instead of Hillary. Rather than take their share of the blame for what has happened, they denegrate a dead woman who is the damn reason they have so many of the freedoms that they do at present, and the reason they could pay for their phone/tablet/laptop they used to tweet shit about her using a credit card without a male's approval.

Should RBG have retired during the Obama era? Maybe, but as we saw with Scalia's death, once Republicans took the Senate all norms went out the window in terms of procedure. At the end of the day, RBG retiring would not have saved Roe - the ruling was 6-3. The death knell for Roe was the election of 2016 - a seat was open, Hillary warned what woud happen, the far-left didn't listen, and RBG, knowing what was to happen, tried to hold on as long as her body would let her. It was the one fight she sadly lost.

[crinosg]

Seeing a lot of people on Twitter going "Democrats are just as bad as Republicans! They aren't doing anything to stop this! They just keep telling us to vote in November but things keep getting worse!"

Alright everyone, gather round cause Uncle Crinos is going to explain to you how all this works.

The Supreme court has a Supermajority of conservatives, due to the fact that Trump got three Supreme court nominations. One was stolen from Obama (McConnell basically refused to even consider any of Obama's nominations), one was due to Anthony Kennedy retiring. and the third because RBG died while Trump was still in office and they rushed that entry through.

At this point there isn't a lot the Democrats can actually DO to deal with this, at least not with the current set up of the board. We control the senate, but only barely (And two of the senators who are supposed to be on our side are Democrats in name only). The only option that might work is if we gain more senate seats in November, kill the fillibuster, and expand the Supreme court.

People seem to think with Biden as President that it would be the end of all bad stuff forever, but the fact is that presidencies are not just contained in a single bubble, things that happen in a presidency have long lasting effects that will last a long time. The overturning of Roe Vs. Wade, and whatever bullshit this Supreme Court gets up to, is happening because Trump won the election in 2016. This is why voting matters. If you were one of those people who didn't vote in the 2016 election, if you "couldn't bring yourself" to vote for Hillary, if you voted for Jill Stein or just didn't vote at all, well, this is the consequence of those actions. We warned you back then this would happen.

The GOP fucked us and stole the Supreme court, and because of that things are gonna suck for a while, and its gonna take a lot of work to fix. And part of that is VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION FOR DEMOCRATS. And before you @ me about "But things are still getting worse!" I suggest you actually look in to WHY things are getting worse, because the answer is usually "Because the GOP won in a previous election and the bad stuff happening now is a ripple effect from that."

Like this isn't a one and done thing. You have to keep it up. You have to keep voting. And anyone encouraging you to not vote is an idiot at the very best and a liar and a conspirator at the very worst.

Like I know things are bad right now, and spoiler warning, they're gonna get worse before they get better. But things will get better, and we're gonna make it better by rolling up our sleeves and doing everything we can to fight back.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

One more thing to add about the "Hillary could've appointed 3 judges" thing: There is no way in hell that the GOP controlled Senate would've let Hillary replace RBG's seat, even if she chose to retire in 2017, and I highly doubt that Anthony Kennedy would've retired under Hillary, either.

It’s really wishful thinking that the Clinton dynasty would try and make things better, even if they realistically could. Hillary would have been about as effective as Biden or even Obama at actually getting what the people actually wanted done

[sunnypogue]

make mcconnell choke on his own rule. he announced they wouldn’t fill scalia’s seat within an hour of his death. watch them scramble to fill RBG’s seat before the the election.

CALL YOUR SENATORS. CALL SUSAN COLLINS. (202) 224-2523. DEMAND THEY UPHOLD THE MCCONNELL RULE AND KEEP HER SEAT VACANT UNTIL THE ELECTION IS OVER.