Totenberg: Rushing to fill Ginsburg's seat would ‘abolish’ independent judiciary

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On Senate Republicans rushing to fill Justice Ginsburg’s Supreme Court Seat, NPR Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg, says, “It wouldn't be good for the Court, it wouldn't be good for the country, [and] it wouldn't be good for anybody.”

NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, who was a close friend of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for 48 years, tells Lawrence O'Donnell that rushing

the Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice "wouldn't be good for the Court, it wouldn't be good for the country, and it wouldn't be good for anybody.”

 

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Let’s see what the Constitution says... fill the seat. End of discussion.

It’d be good for me.

Rushing In 1987, RBG and two other justices were nominated, approved, voted on, and appointed successively In just 46 days

Obama disagrees

Spoken like a true liberal!

Next time don’t attempt a coup.

Wow what a unique and nuanced take

PLS TAKE A PART IN ELECTIONS AND MAKE AMERICA 🇺🇲 GREAT GLORIOUS LEGENDARY AGAIN 👍👍😊🙏 VOTE FOR DONALD JOHN TRUMP REGIME AGAIN TYNX

If the pro-life people who are against abortion because a fertilized egg / embryo is a person/life, then they must also be against in vitro fertilization so people can have babies because thousands and thousands of unused fertilized eggs / embryos are destroyed every year.

That’s the whole GOP point.

FillTheSeatNOW

Oh, well if the drone on NPR doesn't like it then it must absolutely be the right thing to do.

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Get er done!

its happening. get use to it

Democracy will die November 3rd.

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