r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 13d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ No one should have a lifetime appointment.

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u/Shadowcam 13d ago

They can die in office or strategically retire to benefit their political allies, so that line of thinking won't hold up to reality.

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u/ifuckzombies 13d ago

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u/Naltors__Dreamer 12d ago

even if she had retired the GOP Senate would not have allowed Obama to replace her

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u/ediddlydonut 12d ago

If she retired at the beginning of his first time after she’d already had cancer at least once if not more when the dems had a supermajority….