• SpaceBar
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    372 years ago

    You just know that it crossed the minds of her enablers that they could still cling to power somehow.

    People in her staff and family are to blame for her dying in office.

    • Liz
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      182 years ago

      Strangely enough, it’s genuinely, actually the Republicans’ fault. The reason she couldn’t retire was that she was on the judiciary committee and in order to fill her vacant seat they needed 60 votes. Naturally if she resigned the Republicans would have refused to put literally anyone in that seat so judicial confirmations would have been blocked until the next election. Now that she’s dead we’re in that situation anyway, but she refused to retire in order to try and make it to the next election so the Republicans couldn’t do that. Five years ago she was in reasonable health so there was no reason not to run for reelection. When health troubles hit she planned the only exit available that wouldn’t hurt the county.

        • @Algaroth@lemmy.world
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          272 years ago

          Used to be a time when retirement age was 65. More and more shit is being automated but for some reason I have to keep working longer.

      • @MrTulip@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 years ago

        Five years ago she was 85 and running for another six-year term. Even if she was decent health then, expecting to still be in good health at 91 isn’t what I’d call ‘reasonable’.

        • Liz
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          12 years ago

          Since when have modern Republicans been worried about pulling an unprecedented dick-hole move? The most likely future is that a safe-seat Republican forces a formal vote on her replacement and then they all just vote against every nominee. The only way that’s not happening is if the Senate nominates s replacement so fast that it would be a political nightmare to block it. Problem for the Democrats is that if they do propose someone that quickly then people can say it’s somehow uncouth to replace her that quickly.

      • @IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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        32 years ago

        Then she needed to not be on the goddamn judiciary committee! What the fuck is wrong with these people?!

      • @IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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        12 years ago

        Then she needed to not be on the goddamn judiciary committee! What the fuck is wrong with these people?!