My Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing…
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Last sentence was interesting:
"The questions before the Court now and in the coming years — with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures — are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process."
Alludes to the need for hard processes -- actual law in this case -- around items like deciding when a supreme court justice is picked, and who gets to pick them.
We should clean up some of these malleable norms with concrete law so as to better fortifier our most meaningful processes.
Trump and president day republicans have made this painfully clear.
