AG Jeff Sessions has resigned at President Trumps request, announced via twitter.

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Desktop Hippie

So just to make things even more terrifying, Supreme Court Justice and living legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg has fractured three ribs in a fall.

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1060540684149645313

She’s not the sort to retire, but this might force her to at least have to take some time off.

Javen

Next session is in about 3 weeks

Desktop Hippie

Lets hope she’s feeling better, but she’ll have to take care of herself. Fractured ribs are no joke.

CelestialBadger

In an elderly person, falls and fractures are a sign of increasing frailty. She might have to retire whether she wants to or not.

TetraNitroCubane

Desktop Hippie wrote: »

So just to make things even more terrifying, Supreme Court Justice and living legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg has fractured three ribs in a fall.

My persistent internal screaming somehow just got louder.

Jazz

Desktop Hippie wrote: »

Lets hope she’s feeling better, but she’ll have to take care of herself. Fractured ribs are no joke.

Doubly so when you're 85.

Javen

RBG takes pretty good care of her body.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/rbg-ruth-bader-ginsburg-workout-personal-trainer-elena-kagan-stephen-breyer-214821

Mazzyx

CelestialBadger wrote: »

In an elderly person, falls and fractures are a sign of increasing frailty. She might have to retire whether she wants to or not.

Depends on the cause. Even so she can probably keep going 2-3 years with a careful regime, good diet, and exercise. Circumstances around a fall are very important as well.

No-Quarter

I don't care how much she complains about how ridiculous it looks, she's getting a suit made from bubble-wrap

SyphonBlue

RBG will die on the bench before she retires under Trump

Bogart

The thread is about Sessions, not the supreme court or RBG's unfortunate fall.

halkun

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Couscous wrote: »

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/11/07/matt-whitakers-troubling-opinion-judges-need-biblical-view/1923393002/

Matthew Whitaker's troubling opinion: Judges need a biblical view

Editor's note: This column was originally published on May 4, 2014.

But Whitaker went the farthest: "Natural law often times is used from the eye of the beholder and what I would like to see — I'd like to see things like their world view, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important because we all know that our government ..."

"Levitical or New Testament?" interrupted Erickson.

"I'm a New Testament," continued Whitaker. "And what I know is as long as they have that world view, that they'll be a good judge. And if they have a secular world view, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I'm going to be very concerned about that judge."

Oh. He is that kind of Republican lawyer.

So like

Guessing he doesn't know we were founded by a bunch of Secularists and Deists, huh?

Like, five people know what deists are. We don’t teach history good.

He’s the dude who sang Holy Diver

I'd say his Black Sabbath output is more in line for the founders, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules in particular.

Depends if the Stand he has is awesome and not just something that can be beat in one episode of Jojo

Duke 2.0

This is pretty serious for an 85 year old, but the context of her situation is uniquely durable. On top of being very healthy this was a fracture of some ribs and not the pelvis injury that marks a death sentence for many elderly. Her family takes good care of her so the broken rib worry of pneumonia is less likely. The most worrying part is the fall and what caused it. That on its own can be a major concern for health.

If it’s just broken ribs I’m not terribly concerned.

CelestialBadger

SyphonBlue wrote: »

RBG will die on the bench before she retires under Trump

If she is entirely unable to participate in proceedings beyond being wheeled in to vote, she can presumably be forced to retire on grounds of health.

wobblyheadedbob

I hope the protests tonight are massive. Both my wife and I are going.

spool32

I'm skeptical that the Sessions protests will come to anything.

SyphonBlue

spool32 wrote: »

I'm skeptical that the Sessions protests will come to anything.

So am I, but I still hope the protests are massive.

So It Goes

I'm closing this thread now that we're past the breaking news cycle. Discuss Mueller's investigation and Whittaker s new job in the Mueller thread.

And when a mod days stop discussing something that means stop discussing it.

Geth, close the thread

Geth

Affirmative So It Goes. Closing thread...