I have had enough with this deification of RBG. She served her role with honour and my best wishes go to her family but in the legal frame she is not anymore deserving of greater admiration than most of her SCOTUS colleagues. In terms of legal judgement the late Antonin Scalia's decisions have greater long term ramification...see DC v Heller, Printz v United States, Employment v Smith etc.
She was also not the trailblazer that people make her out to be. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to sit on Scotus. RBG is also not the first nor is she the last of the Judicial activists who have unfortunately politicized the office.
The role of SCOTUS is to interpret the law not make it. Judges can hold the seat for the duration of their life but it is not theirs to will away. Remember all authority comes from one source - the People. So lets put to rest this nonsense of death bed wishes.
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