Mark America

She can barely remain awake when she appears in public.  It is now being reported that she won’t even sit for oral arguments of cases before the court.  It’s sad that, avoiding other catastrophic, sudden ends, we all eventually come ’round to the time when we can no longer keep up a standard work-day or working life.  Nobody wants to become useless.  Nobody wants to feel like a burden to their families or their fellow citizens.  Ego has a way of driving people to continue in a fashion that both logic and nature dictate is no longer possible.  Having survived at least three serious bouts of cancer, including pancreatic cancer, which few survive, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer able to keep up the schedule of a Supreme Court justice, and those with even the barest human compassion realize that it is time for her to retire, but the left is in a panic.  Donald Trump is president, and they haven’t managed to impeach him yet.  They must get Ginsburg to hold on to life and her seat on the court if they are forced to put her on life support and a feeding tube, strapping her, scarecrow-like, to a stake.  They hope they can get rid of Trump by way of impeachment in time to appoint another leftist to replace Ginsburg. The leftists in Washington DC are contemplating everything from feeding tubes to a strange imitation of “Weekend At Bernie’s” in order to attempt to preserve the seat on the high court. None of it will work, but the shame lies in the insistence that this octogenarian remain on duty until they can conjure up a method to replace her with another radical leftist.  Perhaps worse, Ginsburg has given every indication that she’s willing to be used in this fashion.

What they haven’t really considered is that even if they impeached Trump tomorrow, and somehow convinced two-thirds of the Senate to remove him the day after, the problem of a dying/retiring Ginsburg would not go away: President Pence would then make the appointment, and a Senate firmly in the hands of Republicans would undoubtedly approve.  Game over.  Checkmate.

One would think this argument would be enough to convince them to mercifully relent, and to finally let Ginsburg go.  One might think that Ginsburg would finally give in and realize that no one person is that important to the court that they cannot be permitted to retire or die.  One might think those things, but one would have to be completely unaware of what drives leftists.  In their collective hive-mind, the possibilities are endless.  They are concocting everything that the human mind can conceive (and not a few things that it can’t) in order to preserve the seat on the court.  Democrats are convinced that if they can somehow rid themselves of Trump, they will be able to recapture the ideological edge on the court, but this is a fantasy.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been the most radical element on the court since Bill Clinton appointed her to replace Justice Byron White in 1993.  It is odd that a woman who advocated for making children younger than 12 years of age capable of consenting to sex is now treated by the left as some sort of indispensable totem on the court.  Or is it?  After all, Ginsburg has demonstrated throughout her career that she is capable of the most irrational radicalism.  She agitated on behalf of sex-integrated prisons.  That’s right, she wanted to house both male and female inmates together.  Ginsburg is the person who drove the replacement of the term “sex” with “gender,” a thing that ought to make every student of language happy to see her go.  In short, she’s been a half-baked lunatic her entire working life, which by my own estimation, has gone on at least twenty-five years too long.  I am not suggesting that I want her to die.   I merely wish her to retire, but given her influence on the court and the constitution these last twenty-five years, it cannot come soon enough.

When she finally leaves the court, there will be some chance of eliminating the numerical advantage the left has due to Justice Roberts’ ridiculous posturing as the new swing vote, and the President’s nemesis.  Ever since Obama and his crew exercised pressure on Roberts, he’s been unreliable at best.  Let us hope that should President Trump get another Supreme Court pick, he chooses as well as when he selected Justice Gorsuch.  I half expect Kavanaugh to wind up as a moderate justice, having been so thoroughly smeared by the left.  He’ll feel obliged to show he’s “fair,” despite what was done to him.  Whomever Trump may eventually pick, it must be a solid originalist.

This will not go easily.  As with everything else President Trump undertakes, he will find massive and unanimous opposition from the left, and some opposition from the NeverTrump wing of his own party.  People like Mitt Romney(R-UT) are always looking to be a thorn in his side.  The Democrats are in constant fear of losing a tight ideological strangle-hold on the Supreme Court, primarily for one reason: Roe v. Wade.  The 1973 decision of the court effectively legalized abortion from sea to shining sea; from conception through delivery.  Protecting Roe v. Wade is such a baseline imperative to the left because they know it is written on flimsy medical, scientific, and legal grounds.  It’s ripe for an overturn, and this is why the Democrats are in a quiet panic.  So much of the campaign contributions Democrats receive grows out of this poisonous, wretched well of murder-profiteering that they cannot afford to leave any stone un-turned in pursuit of wrecking Donald Trump’s ability to replace Ginsburg.

If you think they were dishonest and shrill when it came to Kavanaugh, you’ve had only a sample-sized taste of what Democrats will do.  They will all come out of the woodwork now.  They will attempt to impeach Trump.  They will attempt to remove him from office.  Wait for Mueller’s Get-Trump-Brigade to pull out all the stops.  Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing more important to the near-term political future of the Democrats.  If they don’t stop Trump from appointing another Supreme Court justice, they will see their agenda seriously imperiled for the first time in three decades.

At the moment, Democrats are playing it cool.  “Nothing to see here, just move along.”  Behind the scenes, they are frantically scouring law books and case precedents in pursuit of a strategy to stop Trump.  They know Ginsburg’s time is likely running out.  She’s effectively the patron saint of Roe v. Wade on the court.  If they lose her, it will be horrifying for them, but to potentially lose her seat in the ideological balance of the court will lead them to do almost anything.  Behind the scenes, they’re in full panic mode, and while they don’t dare admit it, or even acknowledge they’re thinking about it, you’d better believe that almost nothing else is dominating their time.