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The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the age of 87, Friday, September 18, from pancreatic cancer, had been feared for months by the Democratic camp, which held its breath with each hospitalization of the dean progressive from the highest legal body in the country. Donald Trump had made this prospect a campaign argument by assuring ten days ago, to mobilize his base, that his re-election would make it possible to profoundly modify his balances, the two oldest judges having been appointed by Bill Clinton, there has a quarter of a century. Five of those judges appointed for life were chosen by Republican presidents, the other four by Democrats.
The news of the death of this figure in the struggle for women’s rights, who has become an icon on the left, plunged one part of the country in dismay while the other exulted at the prospect of anchoring the Supreme Court even further to right. Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), master of the agenda, launched hostilities as soon as the news was heard. “We promised to work with the president [Donald] Trump and support his platform, including his remarkable choices for federal judgeships. Once again, we will keep our promise. President Trump’s candidate will get a vote in the United States Senate “, He assured in a statement.
This prospect will electrify the presidential campaign. Never in American history has a judge promised to such a position been appointed so close to an election to the highest office. The latest precedent, the brutal death of Conservative judge Antonin Scalia in February 2016, had prompted a completely different reaction from the same Mitch McConnell. Because the president was then a Democrat, Barack Obama, he estimated that at eight months from the end of his second term, the latter lacked the necessary legitimacy. Without the slightest qualm, Mitch McConnell now plans to override Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last wishes. “My dearest wish is not to be replaced until a new president has taken the oath”, would have entrusted the judge to her granddaughter Clara Spera, according to a relative, journalist with the public radio NPR. A strengthened conservative majority could reignite the Republican war on abortion rights that this women’s rights activist has always opposed.
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