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pnwmom

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5. In 2008 she was a 75 year old double cancer survivor. She could have retired

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 02:35 AM

Aug 2018

at 77 -- older than most people retire -- and been replaced by a good judge who was young and healthy.

Instead, she's 85 now and we're all desperately hoping she outlives DT's/Pence's Presidency. I wish we weren't in that position.

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Yeah Gothmog Aug 2018 #1

Long may you run, RBG. aikoaiko Aug 2018 #2

No one is indispensable. I wish she'd retired during the first year or two of Obama, pnwmom Aug 2018 #3

In 2016, though, she had every reason to believe Obama Hortensis Aug 2018 #4

In 2008 she was a 75 year old double cancer survivor. She could have retired pnwmom Aug 2018 #5

Certainly know what you mean. But it lmost doesn't matter. Hortensis Aug 2018 #6

Ginsburg - can't find much about it............ SirWinston Jan 2019 #7

I'll bite - whats your latest on RBG? marble falls Jan 2019 #8

from Politico.... at140 Aug 2019 #9