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I like how this is addressing her not retiring bc it is a lot of people’s biggest gripe with RBG’s legacy. I appreciate the book’s perspective that retiring would have went against RBG’s entire nature. While I may not have liked it, I can concede that she (and so many others) may not have understood what would come by her not retiring. I don’t think many anticipated how detrimental it was.
— Oct 15, 2025 02:55PM
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Sometimes when I’m fuming at Scalia I have to remember that they’re people too and not robots. This book does an interesting job at reminding you of that
— Oct 17, 2025 07:51AM
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Oct 15, 2025 03:01PM
ALSO (thx word count) I appreciated the acknowledgement of how her retiring may have prevented the change in Court but also describing how doing so was so fundamentally adverse to RBGs methods. While it disappointed me, I will always feel empathy for her having to make that decision. She was such a huge trailblazer for women and stepping down from a challenge was never her forte. Maybe it wasn’t the time and place, but I think the narrative that she is to blame for the change in the Court’s composition is an inherently sexist argument. Rather, the blame is on our judicial system being set up for life terms for SC Justices. I know we’ve been having that fight since Hamilton, but that is the root of the issue of packing the court, not RBGs decision to stay.
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