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RBG HAS DIED

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

 SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS DIED. THIS HAS ENORMOUS IMPLICATIONS. MORE LATER UPDATE:Who says the almighty doesn't have a sense of humor? Could you have created a more Hollywood script then the blocking of Judge Merrick Garland in the last months of the Obama  Administration only to have RBG die in the last months of the first term of the Trump Presidency? Here is what we know: The Republicans drew a bright line in the sand when they blocked Judge Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court. They do not believe Supreme Court Judges should be approved when there is a pending presidential election....unless the Judge who dies was appointed by a Democrat AND there is a Republican president. THEN the analysis is that you cannot have a 4-4 court heading into an election that could be contested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 18, 2020 (boomark / email).