Ruth Bader Ginsburg could probably have saved Roe v. Wade by retiring, writes DeeTwoCents
. If you only get one bite at the apple, you better make it big—and this is what Democrats failed to do.
Like the late Justice Ginsburg, Democrats of a certain time believed in honor and tradition. They believe in a shared moral fabric that for 240 years we have draped our imperfect union in. Republicans, however, have shown they have only one allegiance and that is to power. And while they will fight to the end for that power, Democrats have all too often given in.
When Ginsburg made her decision to stave off retirement it was up to Democrats to do what they could to protect the Court from the unrelenting assault Republicans have been waging for decades. What would that have meant? Not rolling over and allowing Mitch McConnell to hold Merrick Garland’s seat hostage and certainly not allowing him to do so again by ignoring the request of Justice Ginsburg from her deathbed to not let Trump replace her.
Should it have been up to Ginsburg, the second woman ever named to the Supreme Court, to make her own decision about whether or not to retire? Yes. It was her choice and she earned it. Ginsburg was a fighter for every marginalized group—one who lamented how the decision was constructed inbecause she felt that abortion shouldn’t be couched in the right to privacy of a pregnant woman but rather in gender equity under the 14th amendment equal protection clause.
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