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On this day, five years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died (Original Post) berniesandersmittens Sep 18 OP
She is missed. Ping Tung Sep 18 #1
Damn 😔 electric_blue68 Sep 18 #2
Much respect for RBG. LoisB Sep 18 #3
In 2019 I visited the Supreme Court of South Africa in Johannesburg. milestogo Sep 18 #4
She held on as long Faux pas Sep 18 #5
Isn't that the problem though? fujiyamasan Sep 18 #6
McConnel wasn't letting anyone be confirmed to the SC anyway. still-prayin4rain Sep 18 #7
Thank 😊 you Faux pas Sep 19 #8

milestogo

(22,127 posts)
4. In 2019 I visited the Supreme Court of South Africa in Johannesburg.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:31 PM
Sep 18

My guide was a young black South African man. He knew who RBG was and what she had accomplished. I was speechless.
The world really does look to us, or at least they used to.

fujiyamasan

(827 posts)
6. Isn't that the problem though?
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:56 PM
Sep 18

She should have realized her own humanity, but her ego got in her way.

She had the chance to step down and let Obama appoint a successor. Instead we got ACB.

Sorry, i don’t find that heroic.



still-prayin4rain

(510 posts)
7. McConnel wasn't letting anyone be confirmed to the SC anyway.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:05 PM
Sep 18

She would have had to step down 7 years before she died in order for Obama to have a chance to seat her replacement. The mess we're in is on the shoulders of our imbecilic voting citizenry.

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