When the news broke about the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg my first reaction was sadness. She stood for equality, and thanks to her we have seen a tremendous amount of progress made in our nation. She was seen to many as that matriarch grandmother of justice for the nation, and so the nation is in mourning.
My next reaction however was fear. I fear with how political charged this nation is on everything, and what will happen if the highest court in the land would become corrupted by politics. Where will we be as a nation? Will we step back in time? What will life become now for a whole generation? What will our country look like?
Now I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I will say there is a lot of hypocrisy going on and people need to be called out. Yet time and time again politicians on both sides of the isle are easily swayed and side with parties lines and not with the people they represent. Thus to carry on Ruth's legacy for standing up for what is just, we must all vote with our conscious and not become so stuck to parties lines that our judgment becomes so clouded. To put this in perspective over my lifetime, back in 1993 the Senate confirmed Ruth by a 96-3 vote. Yet the latest Justice that was appointed in 2018 received a confirmation vote of 51-49, basically right along party lines. We are all Americans first and foremost, and it is high time we start to act like that.
RIP RBG
Yours truly,
Nicklas
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