9/19/2020

Dear Friend, DJT,

           DJT,

            It is a somber here. In addition to the smoke that is returning, my day is clouded by the news of RBG’s passing. Ever since June, 2018 when I watched, “Notorious RGB,” I have evoked her name as I do my pushups in the morning. Her strength inspired me to develop my own. As I did those push-ups, I would hold her in the Light, hoping she could survive past Jan. 2021. I am so sorry that she didn’t. As Mary McNamara wrote in today’s LAT, “Her death will leave behind the tiniest robes in Supreme Court  history & one of the largest holes in that history’s fabric.”

You could save us all a lot of drama by holding off on trying to appoint anyone to take her place. While AMM may have crafted a clever argument about moving forward even though he blocked Obama’s nominee in 2015, others might not go along with him. You recall that in 2016, LAG said:

I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president … and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.’”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/02/jaime-harrison-lindsey-graham-senate-south-carolina/

Jaime Harrison, LAG’s opponent, has lots of $$ in his campaign chest, so he can remind voters over & over of LAG’s pledge. Cory Gardner might be in a similar jam in CO. Susan Collins & Lisa Murkowski have expressed their concerns about seating a new justice & you know that Mitt Romney will do what he thinks is right. Charles Grassley says, “you can’t have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents.” The GOP doesn’t need a lot of in-fighting so wouldn’t it be best just to wait?

            I appreciate that you & your family expressed your sympathies to all who are grieving over RGB’s passing. I hope her replacement, whenever they may be appointed, will take up her “radical project” of ending discrimination & protecting the rights of women, especially regarding the right to choose when to have a baby.

            Be safe on your trip to Fayetteville & don’t forget to mask up.

            HYITL,