She could have done it when she was diagnosed with cancer 9 years previously and the Democrats controlled both houses with a supermajority in the Senate and a decade past the standard US retirement age.
The argument with garland was “it was an election year”. They tried to make rbg retire well before that so at least that argument would have been different.
Remember when Merritt Garland was supposed to be a Supreme Court justice?
Even if RBG retired under Obama, McConnell would have done the same shit with her replacement.
Now she didn’t know that, but it doesn’t mean we would have a better court if she had retired sooner.
She could have done it when she was diagnosed with cancer 9 years previously and the Democrats controlled both houses with a supermajority in the Senate and a decade past the standard US retirement age.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Yes, that’s what many people said at the time.
The argument with garland was “it was an election year”. They tried to make rbg retire well before that so at least that argument would have been different.