Despite being a dependable vote for liberal causes in her 20 years on the bench, some advocates on the left are pressuring 80-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step down.
But Ginsburg, who fell and broke her ribs in May, says she has no plans to retire anytime soon.
She is the oldest member of the Supreme Court and has survived two bouts of cancer in the last 15 years. In an interview with Reuters this week, Ginsburg said she is in excellent health, as reported by The Hill.
“It really has to be, ‘Am I equipped to do the job?'” Ginsburg told Reuters. “I was so pleased that this year I couldn’t see that I was slipping in any respect,” she said.
Progressives want to ensure that President Obama can appoint her successor before he leaves office, and do so while the Democratic Party holds a majority in the Senate. The chamber must approve Supreme Court nominations and its balance will be up for grabs in 2014.
Ginsburg said in the Reuters interview that her new “model” was Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired after almost 35 years on the bench at 90 years old.
And according to the New York Daily News, she’s “keeping up a typically busy summer of travel, at home and abroad, beginning next week with a trip to Paris.”
As for those who want her to move aside, is this the real “war on women,” or is it just the latest indication of how little the progressive left values the elderly?
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