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SCOTUS watch
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He’s only 70. I would think he still has a ways to go. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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But not 3 more terms, assuming Trump takes 2020 and we get an unfriendly for 8 years starting in 2024.
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240+ examples of CCWs Saving Lives. Last edited by Paladin; 11-12-2018 at 8:25 AM.. |
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Don't want to see him go, but yeah, don't want to risk losing the current balance. I assume both he and Alito want to rule on some gun cases before they leave the bench... based on all of their cert dissents I get the impression they are fuming and ready to lay the smack down.
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For some reason I was thinking the election was next year
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We can't bank on Trump winning 2020, so any "strategic" retirements would need to be made within the next 12 months e.g. end of the current session. Roberts has always scared me. He's always been a pretty solid conservative, but the recent cert denials do not bode well for the future of the SCOTUS defending the 2A. And I was kidding about Garland. Even if Trump were to nominate Garland, the left would find some kind of problem with him because Trump.
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Mentally, Sotomayor sounds sharp, content and confident.
Physically, she looks 74 yo, not 64. That's a lifetime of Type 1 diabetes catching up to her. ETA: note well how she says as a justice, the other justices are those whom you'll be working with, not "the rest of your life," but "most of the remainder of your life." I think Sotomayor won't work until she drops, she's planning on retiring before "dying with her robe on."
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They are all hoping outlast Trump assuming he get booted in 2020. Not sure if the Senate will honor not considering SCOTUS confirmations the year of a Presidential election. We may only be looking at a 14 month window. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Unless Trump isn't on the ballot in 2020 Nov, Trump is not "lame duck" until AFTER the election AND he lost reelection.
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Obama was a lame duck because he never used his pen and phone to repeal the 22nd Amendment Schumer and Schiff-for-brains want to extend that to midterms?
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Santa Monica Observer suggests RBG to retire January 2019: https://www.smobserved.com/story/201...2019/3658.html
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With the close observation following cancer patients, it's unlikely to be more than skin deep (cutaneous) From https://www.skincancer.org/publicati...ol-32-no-2/men Last edited by Drew Eckhardt; 11-26-2018 at 10:54 PM.. |
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We already talked about the skin cancer news. Is it possible for double cancer patients to randomly get melanoma ?
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The story on RBG appears to be “aged” and written previous to the elections (in fact, during the Kavanaugh hearings): Quote:
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"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently-talented fool." "The things that come to those who wait may well be the things left by those who got there first." Last edited by Dvrjon; 11-27-2018 at 6:43 AM.. |
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Having gone through two bouts with different cancers (Scorecard: Me:2; Cancer:0), all that having cancer tells you is that you CAN get cancer. More telling is her survival of pancreatic cancer. She was treated in 1990. The survival rates for women are: 1 year: 20.1% 5 yrs: 3.1% 10 yrs: 1.1% And that’s with “General” health care in England and Wales. She’s getting top-shelf care due to her position. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/hea...l#heading-Zero
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"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently-talented fool." "The things that come to those who wait may well be the things left by those who got there first." Last edited by Dvrjon; 11-27-2018 at 12:44 PM.. |
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Um, yeah.
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Here's an interesting article I found about RBG. Some choice quotes below,
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics...g-obama-trump/ |
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I used to think it was bad Karma and tacky to say I hope she eats it before 2020. But over time I’ve come to realize we are talking about the future of our country and rights.
She might hold on two years, but there’s no way she’s going to make it through a second Trump term. She’s unbelievably frail. |
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While none of the votes from the right count here in California, there are lots of other red/purple states that he won in 2016 that he will likely lose in 2020 for the reasons above.
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Just for selecting judges, especially SCOTUS, is why I voted for Trump. If the Senate backs his nominations, it's all worth it.
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Me too, but not everyone in the swing states did.
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ETA: Do we have any doctors who will know if she has to get on chemo? I've heard that can really take a physical toll. That could force her to retire. ETA2: After all, back during the campaign in 2016, didn't she express a desire to retire in New Zealand if Trump won? This could be the justifiable opportunity she's been waiting for!
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I think she was on chemo prior the breaking her ribs. That's why she appeared so tired on some of her public appearances. Her broken ribs may have been because of the chemo. When the chemo didn't work out, they decided to perform the surgery.
I'm sure we have some cancer survivors , does chemo come first or last? |
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Reading over the sidebar material at the DailyMail gives me more optimism that RBG may be retiring sooner rather than later. This procedure is more involved than I thought. She didn't just have the nodules removed, she had an entire lobe of her left lung removed. She's probably on a ventilator right now and will be for a few days. After that, she may have difficulty breathing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ved-lungs.html
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Right now she has not had chemo for her lung, but had an entire lobe removed in order to prevent spreading. This is an indication it was in early stages I or II most likely. This is her third cancer and anything could happen, but if surgery was enough the survival rate is very high for 5 years ~80%. If the cancer has a property that makes it easier to metastasize to her lymphnodes, then it is about ~40-50% 5 year survival. 5 year survival doesn’t really matter when we are only two years from a possible liberal president. |
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Subsequent treatment will depend on what kind of tumor it is, and its staging. Staging is complicated. I saw one report that said the initial pathology report was a non-small-cell lung cancer. It wasn't clear if that was based on biopsies of the nodule before the surgery, or a rapid frozen section during the surgery, or a preliminary pathology report after the surgery. For NSCLC, chemotherapy is often part of the treatment. I wouldn't hazard any guesses at this point. Most people are out of the hospital within a few days of a lobectomy. |
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after seeing the news today, I knew this thread would flare up lol
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Joking aside, this is a horrific position for a human to be in. She could have retired under Obama (when she should have). But she was certain Hillary was going to win, and wanted the special privilege of having her replacement be nominated by the first female president. Her hubris has thrown her into a nightmare: 85 years old, perilously prone to injury and illness, currently suffering cracked ribs and recovering from having a fifth of her left lung surgically removed. Not able to stop working for at least two more years.... it's just a nightmare for her. For this to be the way anyone spends their last years on the planet....... dang.
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She deserves it. ^^
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