Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now battling cancer for the 5th time in her life. At present she is back home from the hospital having undergone "a minimally invasive, non-surgical procedure" and is presumably continuing with chemotherapy.
Let us hope and pray that Justice Ginsburg can resume normal activity. But let us also pray that, should she choose to retire after this latest bout with the Big C, she can do so at a time of her choosing, which will hopefully be after a new President assumes office.
You can bet that Trump and McConnell, et al. are hovering like bloodlessly white, near-fossilized vultures, waiting—hoping—for her to leave her job before Trump is thrown out of office next January.
It is a sure bet that, should McConnell be given the opportunity to stuff the Supreme Court with another extremely young hyperconservative, he will do so, completely disregarding his tissue-thin pronouncement that, this close to an election, any appointment to the court ought to be the prerogative of the newly elected president. This was the excuse he offered as to why he refused to even give Merrick Garland a hearing after President Obama nominated Garland a full 11 months before the November, 2016 elections.
McConnell’s maneuver paid off. We now have Brett Kavanaugh as Antonin Scalia’s replacement. No one believes McConnell would invoke what he termed “the Biden rule,” which was no rule at all.
That is why Justice Ginsburg must hang in there. A 6-3 court would be a disaster for generations to come.