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In reply to the discussion: Ginsburg needed to retire under Obama [View all]unblock
(52,415 posts)and to varying extents, had an impact on selection. but there's a huge difference between getting a quite conservative kennedy instead of a very conservative bork (and that might be the most extreme example previously) vs. getting republican justice truckers-have-an-obligation-to-freeze-to-death gorsick instead of democratic justice garland.
moreover, your complaint (and its timing) seems to be primarily based on the fact that we wound up with the pick of a republican president rather than the pick of a democratic one....
seriously, it's a bit much to ask of democratic justices to retire prematurely from the dream job toward which they strove for all their careers, where they believe they can have the most positive impact for the nation, simply because the timing of their possible replacement seems to be possibly preferable to what may be the case some number of years down the road.
now, if mcturtle wasn't a complete *sshole and donnie's victory had been widely predicted, perhaps that makes the question more interesting. but to say she should have retired in advance of possibly losing the senate, really, that's a bit too much to ask.
especially if she thinks she's got a good decade or so left in her.