Saturday, September 19, 2020

These are Justice Ginsberg's favorite charities for those that feel they need to honor her name.


These non-profit organizations are known to be her favorites. I don't see where her family listed any preference. The world is a big place and it loved Ruth Ginsberg. 

Malala Fund (click here)

American Bar Foundation (click here)

American Cancer Society (click here)

Metropolitan Opera (click here)

National Museum of Women in the Arts (click here)

Smile Train (click here)

She absolutely loved young people. She believed in their vision of the future. From here going forward, women measure their liberties according to the "Ginsberg Standard." If she took the pledge to protect our Constitution, we can take a pledge to honor her life long work. (click here)

...Ginsburg recalled (click here) instances of women being treated unfairly due to their gender and the complaints that came to her. “One group were teachers who were put on what was euphemistically called ‘maternity leave’ as soon as they began to show,” she remembered. “After all, they didn’t want the children to think that the teacher had swallowed a watermelon. These women said, ‘We are ready, willing, and able to work and with no reason why we should be forced out of the classroom, on unpaid leave, with no guaranteed rights.’” There were the blue-collar women who worked in factories but were unable to receive health care coverage for their families. “They would tell them family coverage is available to men but not to women,” Ginsburg said before recounting her fight for women’s rights in the ’70s. “In basically a decade, almost every explicit gender-based classification was gone. It was not there anymore, and those laws are not going to come back.”

But with abortion restrictions coming into play in over a dozen states, including the temporarily blocked Human Life Protection Act that almost fully bans abortion in Alabama, those rights are under constant threat. “The truth is that with all these restrictive laws, the only people who are being restricted are poor women,” said Ginsburg, who explained that not only can’t they afford to pay for bus or plane fare to a state where abortion is legal, but that they also can’t afford to take days off work. “It was a little like divorce was in the old days. If you had a little bit of money, you go to Nevada and stay there for six weeks; you could get a divorce.”

Ginsburg has put her hope in future leaders like her granddaughter, Clara Spera, Malala Yousafzai, and Greta Thunberg. “The young people that I see are fired up, and they want our country to be what it should be,” she said. “One of the things that makes me an optimist are the young people.”...

The public needs to write to their Senators.

If anyone recalls the failed attempt to repeal Cavenaugh’s nomination, it started a poor, white man interest in the elections. I fully expect Trump to announce a controversial pick that will spark a rise in objections by women.

This is about placing the nominee at confirmation hearings after the election when a government is seated by the people. There will be a change in some elected seats, including the US Senate, therefore the only moral path forward is to wait until next year.

Leadership needs to set the tone and expectations for the nominee process. The focus should be on the timing of the actual nomination in regard to the election. 

Americans need to write to their Senators to end the process until after the election. The actual nominee is not the issue. The issue is the immoral and ruthless determination by McConnell and Trump to taint the court by political appointees rather than the will of the people. 

This decision by Trump and McConnell demonstrates the ruthlessness they carry out as an act against the will of the people.

Americans need to continue to remain calm and see this for what it is, a political power grab the people do not want. They can best address this ruthlessness at the ballot box.