Don’t Blame RBG For The Mess We’re In
Like many people, I was stunned by the news last Friday night that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.
I expected to see the tributes that poured in from across the United States, and even Canada and Europe.
She was an icon to girls and women, not just in America but elsewhere.
What I did not expect to see was the finger pointing at her, which started within hours of the announcement of her death.
Essentially, a number of people expressed unhappiness that RBG had not stepped down from the Supreme Court during the first years of the Obama Administration, when Democrats controlled the Senate.
At first, I thought this was misogyny, but I saw this point of view expressed by women as well as men.
RBG was called selfish for serving until her death at age 87, never mind the fact that President Obama only had a brief window when his party was in charge of the upper chamber.
Now, her death could allow President Trump to swing the court in a conservative direction for years to come.
Her long life aside, this line of thinking claimed that she should have plotted her tenure more strategically, to assure that liberals held more positions in order to withstand a conservative attack.
