Last night, total bollocks showed up in my Twitter feed, courtesy of Jacob Wohl. It was stupid on its face, but we live in such a lunatic country right now that it feels like anything could be true.
Sources saying Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will resign tomorrow
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) January 10, 2019
Jacob Wohl, last seen getting caught in lo-tech scheme to smear Robert Mueller, is unlikely to have inside information about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s plans.
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Justice Ginsburg’s recent health scares have left the right wing ghoulishly giddy. Having just forced Brett Kavanaugh upon a reluctant nation, they dream of pushing out feminist icon. I’d guess that Wohl saw reports, like this one, of the right wing preparing for Ginsburg’s “vacancy,” and did… whatever it is he does.
The only way Trump is getting Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat is if she leaves in a body bag. That woman will literally die first (please don’t die). She will not just give Trump an opportunity to replace her. The notion that she’d voluntarily retire because of declining health is ludicrous.
Every liberal court watcher remembers the tragedy of Thurgood Marshall. In failing health, Marshall hung on through the Reagan years. He tried to last through George H.W. Bush’s term, but retired in 1991, letting Bush replace him with what turned out to be Clarence Thomas. Marshall didn’t want to be a Supreme Court justice in name only, and when he couldn’t do the job anymore, he left.
But Marshall didn’t actually die until January 24th, 1993, a few weeks after Bill Clinton took office. If he had spent two years on extended sick leave, pretending to still be a justice, the entire country would have been spared the Thomas experience.
Ginsburg is unlikely to forget that.
And anyway, according to her doctors she is recovering fine and will be back at the bench in a month.
“This is completely routine,” Dr. Raja Flores, chairman for the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night.
“But it is a big operation. It is a very difficult operation to recover from, but she did very well. She was home in four days. You can’t expect her to be back this soon. She’s only a couple of weeks out of surgery.
“I had an appendectomy when I was 42, and I was out of commission for a month. She’s 85 and had half of her lung removed. We have to be patient. She will be back and she will be fine.”
Flores, who has worked with Ginsburg’s doctor, also noted that younger patients who had the same surgery went on to run marathons after their recovery. “I’m not suggesting that she’s going to run a marathon. But the Notorious RBG will be back on that bench,” Flores said. “The administration trying to find her replacement to me makes no sense. She’ll be back in full form, I’d say within a month.”
My response to Wohl last night still holds:
Possibility A: RBG is voluntarily stepping down to give Trump a SCOTUS appointment, having repeatedly decided to not make that choice under Obama.
Possibility B: Jacob fucking Wohl https://t.co/V9XUxWUCGz
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) January 10, 2019
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.
Jacob Wohl Thinks He Knows About RBG’s Job Status, Doesn’t curated from Above the Law
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