Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87

When Richard Nixon was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States on the 20th of January, 1969, I was in my 1st year of law school at the Howard University School of Law.

More than any other single event, his ‘law and order’, ‘silent majority’ presidency impacted the trajectory of my career and my life in ways that took me a lifetime to unravel and comprehend…

The passing of Justice Ginsburg, the last remaining progressive/liberal giant on the Court, has the potential of altering more than individual lives and careers.

Should Senator McConnell rush to fill this vacancy, which he has announced he would do as I write this post, it will alter the course of American jurisprudence for decades to come….

The last “fervent wish” of Justice Ginsburg is in the form of her request that she not be replaced until after the election and a new President is installed…

McConnel stole an Obama opportunity to fill a vacancy on the high Court by announcing that he would “let the voters decide” 9 months prior to the election in 2016.

McConnell will undoubtedly become the face and poster boy for political hypocrisy and double standard when he initiates the process to replace Justice Ginsburg with less than two months to go before the 2020 election…

Should the Trump-McConnell-Barr cabal succeed in getting a Ginsburg replacement installed before January of 2021, the proverbial rock shall fall through the bottom of the legal, political, and social fabric of this country toward a depth of hell that even Dante would have been hard put describe…

 

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