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It’s that time of the year

by DougJ|  December 22, 20201:05 am| 8 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends

From friend of the blog Batocchio….you can nominate anything you wrote on your blog, whether it’s this one or someone else.  Al Weisel was a great wit who died too soon, so I always like to remember him.

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It’s time once again to continue a tradition started by Jon Swift/Al Weisel, the “Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves.” Jon/Al left behind some wonderful satire, but was also a nice guy and a strong supporter of small blogs. (Here’s Jon/Al’s massive 2007 and 2008 editions. Our smaller revivals from 2010 through 2019 can be found here.)

 

If you’d like to participate, please write to me (Batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com) with your best post of the year before 12/25:

 

Blog Name

Title of Post

Link

Author of Post

Brief Description/Pitch of the Post (1–2 sentences)

 

(If it’s not a reply, adding “best post” in the subject line would also help.)

 

To modify Jon Swift’s 2008 solicitation:

 

I would be very honored if you would participate and send me a link to what you think was your best post of [2020], along with a short description of it.  Please make the hard choice and send me only one link.  I would like to post it before the end of the year, so if you could get it to me before Christmas, I would really appreciate it.

 

One submission per blog, please, otherwise things can get messy. Group bloggers can pick a piece among themselves, but are also welcome to submit their work via their individual blogs, if they have them.

 

As usual, I’m aiming to find the right balance between “inclusive” and “manageable.”  If you know a few excellent blogs (preferably on the smaller side) that you suspect might not be on my radar, feel free to send me their website address (and contact info, if you have it).

 

Thanks,

 

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RIP Ginny Cole, the Goodest Girl

by John Cole|  November 27, 202012:38 pm| 132 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, RIP

RIP Ginny Cole, the Goodest Girl

My parents had to put down Ginny this morning, who died of a particularly aggressive cancer of the blood. I had not mentioned this to you all because there was so much else bad going on in the world, but over the past few months she had developed bleeding tumors all over her body, and twice had to have surgery to remove them. This is a particularly nasty cancer that does not respond to chemo or radiation, and Ginny quite never got over the second surgery, and even as she was recovering more tumors were appearing.

Harry, our family vet, came over and helped ease Ginny out of her pain this morning, and suffice it to say mom and dad are devastated, so keep them in your thoughts. It’s hard to imagine life without Ginny- she was just such a big presence crammed into a tiny little body, with dozens of personality quirks that made her an absolute delight to know.

She will be very, very missed.

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On Justice Ginsburg: One More Farewell

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20209:02 am| 102 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, Activist Judges!, Civil Rights, Women's Rights

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Amy Klobuchar is on FIRE and did NOT come to play.???? pic.twitter.com/Poh8MVbDjF

— DeMarcus ?? (@semperdiced) September 24, 2020

Because these were too good not to share!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg chose, over and over again, not to let awful circumstances crush her determination to fight towards a better world. We owe her to keep that relentless determination alive, as best our individual circumstances permit.

Opinion: Justice Ginsburg leaves us our marching orders https://t.co/WiBOR2QIAY

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 25, 2020

… Ginsburg was arguably the most influential Jew in U.S. history (perhaps tied with Sandy Koufax for the most loved). Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt’s remarks at the ceremony centered on “tzedek, tzedek tirdof” — the phrase from Deuteronomy 16:20 meaning “justice, justice you shall pursue,” featured in an inscription on a piece of art in Ginsburg’s office. There are many rabbinical discussions on why the word “justice” is repeated, but my favorite — one certainly applicable to Ginsburg — is that you must pursue justice in a just way. Justice is not merely the result that matters, but the means by which you seek it. Ginsburg exemplified this idea by pursuing justice for all Americans, case by case, through the steady progress of the law. Might does not make right. It is through rational and creative thinking that justice is advanced. Justice does not come as a bolt from the blue, but as the result of tenacious, fierce, careful and inspired work.

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If we are looking for a deus ex machina to relieve us from the scourge of President Trump and from the repeated denial of justice — for example, to African Americans such as Breonna Taylor — then we are missing the importance of Ginsburg’s legacy. Justice comes over years and decades, through voting, through the courts and through direct and peaceful action. What will save us from Trump is not a flash of conscience in the hearts of Republican senators, but the determination of tens of millions to pursue and defend the rule of law and the dignity of all Americans…

The outpouring of love and grief and loss we have seen over this week for a Supreme Court justice is as unique in history as Ginsburg was. Perhaps some of it comes from the loss of a great champion who was dedicated with every fiber of her being to pursuing justice and to bringing us all into the “We” in “We the people.” Now she rests, the rabbi noted, and we take up her struggle. We will need to be as determined, methodical and persistent as she was.

Ginsburg’s final class of clerks recall her unwavering dedication to law and life.

Throughout the pandemic and her own ailments, young lawyers say the late justice remained meticulous and upbeat. https://t.co/mnpcmz7L0v

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 25, 2020

She belonged in all the places.
Women belong in all the places.

No exceptions.

We see you, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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— Canadian Forces in ???? (@CAFinUS) September 25, 2020

RBG ad worth a watch until the very end and retweet pic.twitter.com/LjjxO3T7b2

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 19, 2020

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Justice Ginsburg Will Be Very Difficult to Replace

by Anne Laurie|  September 25, 202011:03 am| 87 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends

The line to see Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s flag-draped casket on the steps of the Supreme Court doesn’t seem to end. It loops back on itself over and over, thousands of people—countless little girls—waiting to walk past and offer a prayer or nod or plea or simply bear witness. pic.twitter.com/vlv09JB3kg

— Charlotte Clymer ?????? (@cmclymer) September 23, 2020

To repeat:

RIP ruth. just gonna leave it at this: a person whose life was dedicated to upholding the ideals of america probably would not be happy to see her death greeted by “now america will fall apart”. she stood for the opposite, and you can too.

— kilgore trout, non mini-stroke haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 19, 2020

if you think that woman hung on through god only knows what to the age of 87 for a country that would end as soon as she died then frankly I cannot imagine a more accidentally insulting obituary for a person you’re attempting to honor. that’s it. that’s all I’ll say on it.

— kilgore trout, non mini-stroke haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 19, 2020

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A Fearless Girl tribute to RBG pic.twitter.com/JQbv2nG5z9

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 22, 2020

Mourners quietly filed past the flag-draped coffin of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the Supreme Court, as the U.S. began three days of tributes to the liberal icon https://t.co/RSpLqrEpZu pic.twitter.com/Z5l3v1J3JF

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 24, 2020

She was small in stature but even the tallest looked up to her. Her voice was soft but her message rang loud and clear and will echo forever. Thank you, RBG. Rest In Peace. Respectfully, Dolly Parton pic.twitter.com/Sra7ge5K9b

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) September 19, 2020

"Tough, brave, a fighter, a winner. But also thoughtful, careful, compassionate, honest"

Fellow justices, friends and family gather at a private ceremony to honour Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburghttps://t.co/zI3p5gBLqh pic.twitter.com/UQVQj6Z73S

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 23, 2020

.@CharlesPPierce: "She literally was bigger than life, right there before your eyes. It was an honor to watch her work." https://t.co/7Bu6qv3YzX

— Esquire (@esquire) September 19, 2020

… In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg measured Roberts for a feckless child who understands less about this country and its history than he knows about Sumerian calligraphy. She told him in no uncertain terms what his fanciful decision would mean in the real world.

Congress approached the 2006 reauthorization of the VRA with great care and seriousness. The same cannot be said of the Court’s opinion today. The Court makes no genuine attempt to engage with the massive legislative record that Congress assembled. … One would expect more from an opinion striking at the heart of the Nation’s signal piece of civil-rights legislation…Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

It was more than a clever metaphor, although clever it was. It was a statement of remarkable prescience, a statement from someone who knew that the dark elements in American history never die, but only sleep until the opportunity to wreak the old vengeances reveals itself again, as it almost always does. Justice Ginsburg fought those forces in the days when nobody even acknowledged their existence. Her career runs parallel to that of Justice Thurgood Marshall—two champions of freedom and equality who won great victories in front of a Court that they eventually were asked to join. It is a very small club. To join you need a will of iron, an unshakable granite commitment to principle, and a good measure of controlled, implacable ferocity. It is the ferocity that is the most important thing…

So I choose to honor the memory of Justice Ginsburg by honoring the controlled ferocity that burned in her small, wiry frame. I remember the first time I sat in on oral arguments in the Supreme Court. She looked as though her chair would swallow her up. But, when it became her turn to question the litigants, I swear to god it looked as though she grew as I was watching. The force and precision of the intellect she brought to bear gave her size and heft that made her look like a giant. She literally was bigger than life, right there before your eyes. It was an honor to watch her work. Now, the umbrella is gone and, Christamighty, is it ever raining.

“Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for, and helped to constitutionalize the most hard-fought and least-appreciated revolution in modern American history: the emancipation of women.” https://t.co/5kABEaaZwM

— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) September 18, 2020

And those millions are giving tens of millions to Democratic candidates and voting in droves.

Exactly as RBG wanted. https://t.co/eNsQs2i8qq

— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) September 22, 2020

More than 100 of Justice Ginsburg's former clerks meet her casket at the Supreme Court steps https://t.co/uwRWzBSAwj pic.twitter.com/xraaNCPh94

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 23, 2020

Read this whole thread by @palmore_joe, a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a wonderful anecdote that beautifully demonstrates the amazing person she was. #SCOT https://t.co/I0X1mEBEMJ

— David Lat (@DavidLat) September 19, 2020

One day, I accompanied the Justice to a speech at the Georgetown Law Center. Afterwards, we squeezed into an elevator with Court security officers and Georgetown personnel to depart. When the doors closed, the Justice asked, "where is the daycare center?" 3/x

— Joe Palmore (@palmore_joe) September 19, 2020

At the front desk, she announced, "Hello, I'm Justice Ginsburg. My clerk, Joe, is looking for a daycare spot for his son, Simon. We'd like a tour." The Justice and I then navigated the blocks, toys, and toddlers to check out the daycare center. Together. 5/x

— Joe Palmore (@palmore_joe) September 19, 2020

RBG looked to make We the People real for those who had been left out of it for so long. https://t.co/4TGFzGhnau

— Irin Carmon (@irin) September 21, 2020

My favorite RBG fact has always been that she listed the queer Black feminist Pauli Murray, who developed the argument that the equal protection clause applies to sex discrimination, as a coauthor in her first brief to scotus. https://t.co/m8QCc3ZERS

— Noa Yachot (@NoaYachot) September 19, 2020

… One reason Ginsburg might have been reluctant to retire is that like many women of her generation, it took so long for her to get a chance, and even longer for her to become the person she was supposed to be. She did not even begin to be a “flaming feminist litigator,” as she would later describe herself, until she was 37 years old. That year, 1970, she taught Rutgers’s first class on women and the law at the prodding of insurgent female law students, and took on the cases of women whose letters piled up at the local ACLU affiliate.

It was a neat intergenerational relay. If younger women pushed her to take less shit, the work of the women who came before her provided a blueprint. In a mere month of reading everything on women and the law at the library, she discovered that the law had for a century enshrined discrimination by treating it as a favor, the same thing she’d been told her whole life. In the next decade, she would co-found the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and embark on an audacious legal strategy to transform the constitutional understanding of gender.

Two visionary lawyers, the leftist feminist Dorothy Kenyon and the queer Black theorist Pauli Murray, had long argued that gender discrimination violated the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause, which had previously applied only to race. The Supreme Court had never agreed. It hadn’t budged much from its ruling a century earlier barring a woman from practicing law because, per one justice, “The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.” In her second brief to the Supreme Court, 1973’s Frontiero v. Richardson, Ginsburg would coolly observe that “the method of communication between the Creator and the jurist is never disclosed.”

Her very first brief, two years earlier in Reed v. Reed, hadn’t just cited Kenyon and Murray; Ginsburg listed them as co-authors. When fellow ACLU lawyer Burt Neuborne objected that that just wasn’t done, Ginsburg said she didn’t care. “Women generations before said the same things my generation was saying, but they did so at a time when no one, or precious few, were prepared to listen,” she later explained. Though often treated as singular, Ginsburg never stopped calling herself lucky. “I had great good fortune in my life to be alive and have the skills of a lawyer when the women’s movement was revived in the United States,” she told me…

How to solve USPS budget problems: issue stamps right away of RBG and John Lewis.

— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) September 21, 2020

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for all of us. She was a giant of the Court and unflinching in her pursuit of equal justice under the law. Because of her life’s work, we are closer to that more perfect union we’ve always strived to be. pic.twitter.com/o30ZCuj10G

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2020

Justice Ginsburg was often asked when there would be enough women on the Supreme Court. Her response: “When there are nine.” She also shared this wisdom for a happy marriage: "Sometimes it helps to be a little deaf." https://t.co/XmufVLBYXq

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 20, 2020

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served until her last day. Rep. John Lewis walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 2020 after announcing his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Rep. Elijah Cummings signed subpoenas from his death bed. What do we owe them? EVERYTHING we can give.

— An Ethical Donald (@donaldonethics) September 20, 2020

If anything, RBG should be angry that she didn't get to retire a year ago with @HillaryClinton as President. RBG could have enjoyed her final year listening to opera and spending time with her family. Instead, she had to sit on the same bench as Brett "I like beer!" Kavanaugh.

— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) September 22, 2020

Justice Ginsberg will be buried at Arlington alongside her husband, a Korean War-era veteran. https://t.co/IiJtLC8O74

— Bryan Bender (@BryanDBender) September 21, 2020

How do you mourn the loss of a great champion for justice like Ruth Bader Ginsburg? You mourn deeply & you vow to continue her work with even greater resolve. Her death must bring us to life.

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) September 19, 2020

If McConnell over reaches, I’m believing the people will over perform, and we could see an election like never before. RBG often quoted Justice Brandeis: “The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.” May she Rest In Peace. We must rise with power!

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) September 19, 2020

The Supreme Court has hung a black drape over the entrance to the main chamber and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's chair. The tradition dates back to 1873, and has been followed for every Justice who has died in active service since.

It will stay there for 30 days. pic.twitter.com/PgtDHPg4hu

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 20, 2020

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Justice Ginsburg Honored at U.S. Capitol

by Betty Cracker|  September 25, 202010:11 am| 54 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, RIP

Justice Ginsburg is the first female U.S. government official to lie in state at the Capitol.

VP Biden and Senator Harris are there, according to Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, who is officiating now. Open thread.

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Notorious RBG Honored at the Supreme Court

by Betty Cracker|  September 23, 202010:08 am| 123 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, Open Threads, RIP

Justice Ginsburg arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court for the last time a little while ago.

On Friday, RBG will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, the first female government official ever so honored.

Open thread.

ETA: Do any of the blog’s battalions of attorneys have an opinion on this proposal published in Slate? It’s not easy to sum up, but the author, Christopher Jon Sprigman, argues that Congress should use its Article III powers to limit courts’ jurisdiction, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Late Night Mourning / Resolve Open Thread: May RBG’s Example Be Our Guiding Light

by Anne Laurie|  September 18, 202011:40 pm| 78 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, 2020 Elections

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Second woman to sit on the Court.
Fighter for justice and equality.
Defender of our democracy, our freedoms, and our country.

It is our duty — moral responsibility — to continue her legacy. Rest in Power. pic.twitter.com/EuVFsvvxrB

— When We All Vote (@WhenWeAllVote) September 19, 2020

Per @NPR Justice Ginsburg’s deathbed statement is this: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”

— Anne Rumsey Gearan (@agearan) September 18, 2020

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for all of us. She was an American hero, a giant of legal doctrine, and a relentless voice in the pursuit of that highest American ideal: Equal Justice Under Law. May her memory be a blessing to all people who cherish our Constitution and its promise.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2020

Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2020

past 20 years or so has been the GOP leaning harder and harder on their built-in advantages (gerrymander, EC + Senate and (therefore) SC) and I think we're gonna see how far they can go until it breaks

— @canderaid mentality (@canderaid) September 19, 2020

Trump & McConnell not committing to keeping the seat open until January should be framed as their admission of defeat.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 19, 2020

Hours earlier:

MCCONNELL: "The one thing the Majority Leader gets to do, that the other 99 don't get to do, is to decide what we're going to do… We're not changing the filibuster rule. We're not admitting the District and Puerto Rico as states. And we're not packing the courts."

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 18, 2020

Well, at least McConnell waited for a decent interval of, like, an hour before yelling "fuck you" at everyone and dancing on the grave.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 19, 2020

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 18, 2020

Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.

— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) September 19, 2020

I have a very simple message for Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell tonight. The best and only way to honor the life’s work of Justice Ginsburg, a giant of a jurist, is to honor her fervent final wish that she not be replaced until a new president is installed.

— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) September 19, 2020

Rest in Power #RBG — a woman of consequence that we can all learn from — this is a time to make your voices heard ladies — don’t be silent don’t be complicit… rage!

— Erin Brockovich (@ErinBrockovich) September 19, 2020

In her honor we will be dedicating the ACLU Center for Liberty as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center.

Rest in power, RBG.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 19, 2020

Ruthie was my friend and I will miss her terribly. The t-shirts simply labeled “RBG” made her notorious. But it was her wit, her tenaciousness, and her skill as a jurist that made her an icon.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 19, 2020

With voting already underway for the 2020 elections, Ruthie’s “most fervent wish” was for her replacement not to be named “until a new president is installed.” We must honor her wish.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 19, 2020

Rest in Power. We will carry on this fight. pic.twitter.com/I8d8pI2Qej

— VoteVets (@votevets) September 19, 2020

RIP ruth. just gonna leave it at this: a person whose life was dedicated to upholding the ideals of america probably would not be happy to see her death greeted by “now america will fall apart”. she stood for the opposite, and you can too.

— kilgore trout, non mini-stroke haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 19, 2020

if you think that woman hung on through god only knows what to the age of 87 for a country that would end as soon as she died then frankly I cannot imagine a more accidentally insulting obituary for a person you’re attempting to honor. that’s it. that’s all I’ll say on it.

— kilgore trout, non mini-stroke haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 19, 2020

Lord, we have lost so much this year. John Lewis was a blow. Chadwick Boseman was a gut punch. Nearly 200,000 souls have gone into the ether. Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg just fills the whole atmosphere with despair. Let’s fight it though and honor these great souls by our actions.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 19, 2020

This is my favorite Ruth Bader Ginsberg quote:

"When will there be enough women on the court?"

Ruth: "When there are nine."

Rest in power, RBG ????#RIPRBG pic.twitter.com/BmQCI558De

— Adam Pick A Senate Race Smith (@AdamJSmithGA) September 18, 2020

If 46% of us hadn't stayed home in 2016, Ruth Bader Ginsberg could've retired from SCOTUS in January 2017.

"My most fervent wish is that i I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."#Vote #VOTE#VOTE#RIPRBG#NotoriousRBG

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 19, 2020

For anyone wondering, this isn’t a legal or constitutional requirement. If the Supreme Court deadlocks, the lower court ruling stands. https://t.co/jUdoEvVKNu

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) September 19, 2020

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