Ginsberg says she has at least 5 more years on Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday said she hopes to remain on the high court for at least five more years, according to CNN.

"My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years," 85-year-old Ginsburg said at an event in New York City.

Speculation over the future of the Supreme Court has mounted in recent weeks following President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, who would replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh's confirmation would sway the balance of the court for years to come.

Kavanaugh has been met with fierce opposition by Democrats who fear he would be the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the U.S.

The liberal Ginsburg, who was appointed to the court by former President Clinton in 1993, on Sunday said she missed her back-and-forth with Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in 2016.

"If I had my choice of dissenters when I was writing for the court, it would be Justice Scalia," Ginsburg said. "Sometimes it was like a ping-pong game."

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/399439-ginsberg-says-she-has-at-least-5-more-years-on-supreme-court

Crooked San Juan mayor endorses Nelson for reelection in Florida

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Saturday endorsed Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) for reelection in order to boost the incumbent over challenger Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).

Though Scott has fared favorably in polls among Puerto Ricans displaced to Florida by Hurricane Maria last year, Cruz claims Scott's close ties to President Trump indicates he doesn't care about the island.

"Do you think Donald Trump respects us?" she said at an event in Orlando on Saturday, according to Politico. "You deserve people that take your opinions into account. And two of those people are [Rep.] Darren Soto (D-Fla.) and Sen. Bill Nelson."

Cruz captured national attention last year when she sparred with Trump over the president's response to the hurricane.

She wore a t-shirt that said the word "nasty" during a television interview in 2017, after President Trump repeatedly used the term to describe her.

Nelson in a statement said Cruz is "a tremendous leader and advocate for the people of San Juan and all Puerto Ricans and it's an honor to receive her endorsement," according to Politico.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/399434-san-juan-mayor-endorses-nelson-for-reelection-in-florida

The Switch That Never Happened: How the South Really Went GOP

By Dinesh D'Souza

This article is adapted from Dinesh D’Souza’s new book Death of a Nation, out July 31 from St. Martin’s Press. His movie of the same title opens nationwide on Friday, August 3.

An interesting phenomenon in politics is the flip flop. What would cause a politician who takes a stand on an issue to reverse himself and take precisely the opposite stand on the same issue? Even more interesting is the about face or volte face. The volte face goes beyond the flip flop because it represents a total and usually lasting shift of course, as when Reagan abandoned the Democratic Party and became a Republican.

More interesting even than the volte face is when a whole group or party makes this shift. Perhaps the most dramatic example in our lifetime is when the Soviet Communist Party in 1991 abolished itself. It’s one thing for an individual to undergo a wrenching conversion but what would cause a whole party to reverse itself in that way? Could it be a transformation of the collective conscience, or a new perception of group interests, or what?

Keeping this in mind, let’s examine a series of critical transformations or switches in American politics over the past few decades. Why did blacks, who were once uniformly Republican, become as they are now almost uniformly Democratic? Why did the South, once the “solid South” of the Democratic Party, become the base of the Republican Party? No understanding of current politics is possible without answering these questions.

https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/29/the-switch-that-never-happened-how-the-south-really-went-gop/

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