It was important to Ginsburg to be on the court to welcome Sotomayor and, a year later, Justice Elena Kagan. But Ginsburg by then had new celebrity status as the Notorious R.B.G. After interviewing people who knew Ginsburg, I wrote an article for Slate in late 2013 arguing that the public calls for her to retire then, however sensible (and now prescient), wouldn’t work. And when you have a mind as sharp as hers, why wouldn’t you continue?”To some liberals, the answer seemed straightforward. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote an op-ed for The Los Angeles Times in March 2014 urging Ginsburg to step down.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2020 21:33 UTC