{"id":1783127,"date":"2022-12-21T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783127"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T22:03:20","slug":"vox-writer-slams-rbg-arrogance-says-kagan-and-sotomayor-should-take-one-for-the-team-and-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vox-writer-slams-rbg-arrogance-says-kagan-and-sotomayor-should-take-one-for-the-team-and-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox Writer Slams RBG \u2018Arrogance,\u2019 Says Kagan And Sotomayor Should Take One For The Team And Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvox-writer-slams-rbg-arrogance-says-kagan-and-sotomayor-should-take-one-for-the-team-and-retire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vox writer Ian Millhiser slammed late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s \u201carrogance\u201d and called on sitting Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to consider retiring rather than risk the possibility of an unfavorable Senate makeup later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23507944\/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-elena-kagan-ruth-bader-ginsburg-retire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline read<\/a>, and the sub-headline added the reason for his deep concern. The Senate, he alleged, was a \u201cfundamentally broken institution\u201d \u2014 and for that reason, Democratic justices needed to plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s late-life arrogance for more than two years,\u201d Millhiser wrote to open the piece, and then he went on to detail why he believed Ginsburg should have retired while former President Barack Obama was still in the White House and had a friendly Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The problem he outlined \u2014 at least as far as Sotomayor, 68, and Kagan, 62, are concerned \u2014 was that Democrats could very well lose the Senate in two years\u2019 time, and he worried that it would be a long time before the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2022\/12\/21\/should-justices-sotomayor-and-kagan-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balance of power<\/a> shifted in their favor again.<\/p>\n<p>But then Millhiser got to the crux of the matter, revealing that his real problem was not actually the \u201cso brutal\u201d Senate map expected in 2024 \u2014 rather, he took issue with the Senate\u2019s designated role as it was written into the U.S. Constitution: to balance the power of the states with the power of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the Senate \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-are-going-about-house-and-senate-popular-ashe-schow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">malapportioned<\/a>,\u201d he argued that the Constitution gave \u201cextra representation to Republicans in small states\u201d \u2014 and that was the real reason that Democrats were unlikely to regain the majority (according to his math) until 2030 or even later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Sotomayor and Kagan do not retire within the next two years, in other words, they could doom the entire country to live under a 7\u20132 or even an 8\u20131 Court controlled by an increasingly radicalized Republican Party\u2019s appointees,\u201d Millhiser complained.<\/p>\n<p>Slate\u2019s Mark Joseph Stern agreed with Millhiser, saying, \u201cI think Sotomayor and Kagan are brilliant justices and I\u2019d be sad to see them go. But Ian is indisputably correct about the political calculus here. After 2025, Democrats may not hold the White House and the Senate for a decade+. This argument should be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think Sotomayor and Kagan are brilliant justices and I\u2019d be sad to see them go. But Ian is indisputably correct about the political calculus here. After 2025, Democrats may not hold the White House and the Senate for a decade+. This argument should be taken seriously. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VU0vQWPCxa\">https:\/\/t.co\/VU0vQWPCxa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjs_DC\/status\/1605654255678984209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while a fair number of Democrats agreed with his assessment, some also pointed out the fact that Ginsburg had been older and her health had not been as good when she opted to remain on the bench. The late justice had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-court-ginsburg\/u-s-justice-ginsburg-hits-back-at-liberals-who-want-her-to-retire-idUSKBN0G12V020140801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it clear<\/a> that she would not bow to popular opinion when it came to calls for her retirement, saying, \u201cSo tell me who the president could have nominated this spring that you would rather see on the court than me?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox writer Ian Millhiser slammed late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s \u201carrogance\u201d and called on sitting Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to consider retiring rather than risk the possibility of an unfavorable Senate makeup later. \u201cSotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring,\u201d the headline read, and the sub-headline added the reason for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1783130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11027,9369,6962,10847,6202,11028,5537,11030,11026,4005,3818,3944,11029,3722,4000,10758,6195,4718],"class_list":["post-1783127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-arrogance","tag-for","tag-the","tag-and","tag-daily","tag-kagan","tag-one","tag-rbg","tag-retire","tag-says","tag-should","tag-slams","tag-sotomayor","tag-take","tag-team","tag-vox","tag-wire","tag-writer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}