President Donald Trump is reportedly expected to nominate federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president is scheduled to officially announce his choice on Saturday at 5 p.m. But on Friday evening, CNN, CBS News, and PBS, quoting sources, reported that Trump’s pick is Barrett. In choosing Barrett, who currently serves on the […]
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Scheer Intelligence: Justice Ginsburg’s Life And Legacy By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. September 25, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: Justice Ginsburg’s Life And Legacy2020-09-252020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bobscheer-e1601045966474.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Christopher Ho. The documentary filmmakers discuss their film “RBG” on the life and career of the legendary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Eds. Note: With the tragic passing of feminist and progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we highlight here […]
Everything about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has felt wrong. I don’t mean surprising—she was an 87-year-old woman who had battled cancer multiple times and been hospitalized earlier this year; it’s not uncommon for people with that medical history to die. But every second of what’s happened since the news broke of her death has felt like some kind of perversion of what should be happening. In […]
How fast the Supreme Court nominee talk began, with the monumental life that precipitated it surreally relegated in its shadow. It’s there in Donald Trump’s creepy, elated stump speeches, and Mitch McConnell’s pathetic justifications for his own hypocrisy; in the liberal scramble to avert their idea of disaster; and in the glassy eyes of pundits who rack up their appearance fees chatting ever so amiably about […]
Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune hide caption toggle caption Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune Both Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anita Hill became […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died on Friday aged 87 of pancreatic cancer. A fierce critic of US President Donald Trump, her dying wish, she told her granddaughter, was that her replacement would not be found until “a new president is installed”. “She led an amazing life,” President Trump said on Friday on learning from journalists that Ruth […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will likely preside over the political fight over a vacant Supreme Court seat. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will likely preside over the political fight over a vacant Supreme Court seat. Jacquelyn Martin/AP The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday at age 87 will inevitably set in motion what promises to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106821/49/1068214987_0:35:3441:1970_1200x675_80_0_0_d5fd856e0a96fa23fadbc9b9871fc413.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080509836-trump-to-propose-nominee-for-ginsburgs-seat-in-us-supreme-court-soon–reports/ MOSCOW, September 19 (Sputnik) –On Friday, Ginsburg died of cancer at the age of 87 years. According to the NPR broadcaster, shortly before the death, Ginsburg told her granddaughter she would like her seat to remain vacant until the presidential election. US President Donald Trump is expected to announce a nominee for the vacant seat in the Supreme Court […]