What did we already know?  Why, we knew that Supreme Court Justices were highly attuned to the issue of their successor, so much so that they would collaborate with the incumbent administration to ensure that their resignation would be followed by the nomination and confirmation of a like-minded jurist to their vacated seat on the Court.

Jonathan Topaz has an article up on Politico about Justice Ginberg’s candid admission of this fact in her recent interview with Elle magazine.  From the Politico article, these excerpts:

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pushing back against suggestions that she should soon retire, saying President Barack Obama would be unable to get a justice like her through the Senate.

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“If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court,” the oldest member of the high court said.  “[A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided,” later adding that she can “do the job full steam.”

The full article is HERE.  And for extra points, there is THIS article at The Federalist on Justice Ginsberg’s views regarding Roe versus Wade.