All this crazy nonsense for the last 15+ years and its still only a 5-4 vote..............
A fight for the status quo, provided Republicans don't get hoodwinked again.
At least Kennedy has the courtesy to retire under a Republican, rather then die under a Democrat.
Think this fight will be nasty? Imagine the firestorm if Ginsburg kicks the bucket before Trump leaves office. She will not retire on her own no matter how decrepit she gets. The sooner she goes the better it is for the country. She was arrogant enough to think Hillary would be replacing her, probably the only reason she didn't retire in Barry's second term. I think she loved the idea the first woman president would have picked her replacement. Had she known better (not her strong suit), I bet she would be retired. So maybe we will get lucky and Trump gets to replace her.......
We will be stuck with Sotomayor, 64 and Kagan, 58 for decades unfortunately so the best we can hope for is they write lots of losing opinions. They have both been terrible justices, voting wrong most of the time. Don't see that changing either.
Breyer is 79, so after Ginsburg goes will be the oldest liberal. Don't see him going anywhere anytime soon. When he does go, that means Thomas, 70 will likely be needing to be replaced soon too.
Thankfully Alito, 68 and Gorsuch, 50 have been solid so far.
Roberts, 63 will likely get worse as time goes on. He is likely to get even more flaky once Kennedy is gone. Depends on what the deep state has on him and how bad he wants to keep his job.
Trump better find someone under age 55 as well as being a solid constitutionalist. They are going to need to serve as long as possible.