LoD 121: About that Hillary-picked (or -packed) Supreme Court

Copyright (c) 2016, 2025, Thomas Kratman

Thank God we dodged this bullet. Twice:

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I’m not sure how many people realize it, but for the last forty-five years the average age of a Supreme Court justice upon retiring has been just under seventy-nine. Right now, Ginsberg is eighty-three, Breyer is seventy-eight, and the court’s frequently sensible swing vote, Kennedy, is eighty. Add in the recently deceased and very much missed Antonin Scalia, and that means that even a one term president may get to pick two to four supreme court justices, while a two termer will likely get to pick four or, depending on the continued health of Thomas and Alito, perhaps as many as six.[1]

Let’s not hunt for trouble; instead of worst casing the thing let’s just imagine a two term Hildebeast, replacing Scalia, Breyer and Ginsberg with youngish leftist judges, and Kennedy hanging on against the odds for some other president to find his replacement. So we’re looking, best case really, at three new hard leftists, plus Red Sonia,[2] in a “Wise Latina” vein, and Kagan. Oh, puhLEEZE; of course Kagan is a lefty. She may not be as bad as some, but a lefty she is, nonetheless. For one thing she is extremely anti-Second Amendment.[3] For another, she is more concerned with gay rights than with national defense.[4] And then there’s Citizens United v. FEC.[5]