How to avoid an RBG repeat?

You'd think that folks on the left are worried that Joe might lose. Please, relax the trials are going great...the Dark Lord will never get to run and has no chance. Right?

Notable & Quotable: ‘How Best to Avoid an RBG Repeat’

‘Now is not the time to be pussyfooting around the issue in case Sotomayor’s feelings get hurt.’

April 29, 2024 4:16 pm ET

Arwa Mahdawi writing for the Guardian, April 27:

Amid the gerontocracy that is the US government, [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor is basically a spring chicken. Nevertheless, she is still the oldest of the three liberal justices (Elena Kagan is 63). It would be remiss not to at least have a conversation about how best to avoid an RBG repeat. We have no idea what will happen in the future, but we can make sure we learn from the past.

It can’t be particularly nice for Sotomayor, I will acknowledge, to have her health and mortality be a widespread talking point. It can’t be very pleasant for people to seize on her diabetes, the early death of her father, and the fact that she has travelled with a medic, as evidence that her health might be compromised. But now is not the time to be pussyfooting around the issue in case Sotomayor’s feelings get hurt. Now is the time to be terrified that, should the worst happen and another rightwing justice takes Sotomayor’s place resulting in a 7-2 conservative majority, the civil rights of millions will be irrevocably hurt. Now is the time to be strategic.