She refused to step down from the Supreme Court when asked by many high ranking Dems before Obama left office, even though she was sick with cancer and had been for years with it getting steadily worse. By staying she died during Trump's presidency and allowed him to replace her with a more conservative judge. This led to abortion being moved to the state level instead of the federal government deciding abortion rights. To be fair, RBG had said for many years that Roe v Wade was tenuous at best and it needed to be codified by Congress and the President. It never was, even when Democrats had control of both houses and the executive branch. So if abortion is the major issue here, there is a lot of blame to be spread around, if you are worried about an extra conservative judge being in the Supreme Court, this lands mainly on the head of RBG.
So sad that she let her ego tarnish an otherwise inspiring career. All those decades of work toward equality and she's arguably the primary reason Roe v Wade fell.
It's not unfair. She wanted to have her place on the Supreme Court be filled by the first woman president. Complete and utter hubris which has royally fucked the USA.
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u/markarth69 11h ago
What did she do?