Longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she'll hold onto her seat for "at least five more years."
Isn't that partisan politics and against the rules of the Supreme Court, or something?
President Trump has already had two nominations confirmed to the Supreme Court. First Justice Gorsuch and then recently Justice Kavanaugh was added. These two new Justices have given conservatives a one vote edge that has been sought after for many many years. #WINNING
As Reported By BoadlyVice.Com:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is loath to give President Donald Trump a chance to appoint a third justice to the Supreme Court bench, pledging to hold onto her seat for the next five years.
At a New York event for the play "The Originalist," which chronicles the life of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016, Ginsburg told the crowd she plans to stay on the court until she's 90. "I'm now 85," Ginsburg said Sunday. "My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years."
The longtime justice had also made clear her intentions to wait out Trump's term in January, when she announced a full slate of clerks who would work in her chambers through 2020.
Ginsburg's remaining time on the Supreme Court has been the source of great anxiety in the aftermath of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement and Trump's subsequent nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a federal judge whose nomination would skew the makeup of the court firmly in favor of conservatives.