Ginsburg doesn’t want to envision a Trump win

What’s more, Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78.2 years old on the next Inauguration Day, which means he’ll reach the average retirement age during the next president’s first year. In 1987, Justice John Paul Stevens praised Judge Robert Bork, President Reagan’s nominee, saying: “I personally regard him as a very well-qualified candidate and one who will be a very welcome addition to the court”.

Since Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, the Supreme Court has been functioning with just eight justices. We have watched one party refuse to hold hearings based the politics of the president and his potential nominees.

She was less effusive in her review of Hill Republicans, who she says have an obligation to take up his nomination. She hailed, in particular, landmark decisions on affirmative action and abortion – the latter of which she filed a widely acclaimed concurrent brief on.

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What’s particularly interesting about all of this, however, is the way in which Ginsburg approaches this issue: the celebrated jurist seems to realize she’s taking an enormous gamble with “everything” on the line.

“It isn’t so. We haven’t selected them with a view to dodging challenging cases”.

“It would cast doubt on her impartiality in those decisions”, Hellman said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton waves after she addressed the 95th Representative Assembly of the National Education Association on Tuesday..

The Times also asked her if there’s a case she’d like to see overturned before she retires-not that she’s planning to retire any time soon. Ginsburg has evolved over the last 20 years from being just another lockstep liberal vote on the high court to something of a celebrity icon for left-wing women.

“I think this is ultimately a question for judicial ethicists, but I do think following these comments it is a legitimate question to raise, should Donald Trump’s campaign come to the Court with any legal questions before the election”, he wrote in his widely read Election Law Blog. Justice Elena Kagan has worked for both the Clinton and Obama administrations. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his past year”, she said, refuting Republicans’ argument that Obama should not appoint a new justice at the end of his term in office.

She misses the colorful, outspoken Scalia, whom she described as charming.