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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn this day, five years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died

March 15, 1933 September 18, 2020
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On this day, five years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died (Original Post)
berniesandersmittens
Sep 18
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Ping Tung
(3,947 posts)1. She is missed.
electric_blue68
(24,672 posts)2. Damn 😔
LoisB
(11,949 posts)3. Much respect for RBG.
milestogo
(22,127 posts)4. In 2019 I visited the Supreme Court of South Africa in Johannesburg.
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.
Faux pas
(15,991 posts)5. She held on as long
as she could, she's the best example of a true shero!
fujiyamasan
(827 posts)6. Isn't that the problem though?
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 dont find that heroic.
still-prayin4rain
(510 posts)7. McConnel wasn't letting anyone be confirmed to the SC anyway.
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.
Faux pas
(15,991 posts)8. Thank 😊 you
for fact checking. I was too disgusted to respond to that person.