And you dont vote in a selfish way?

Judges are just puffed up lawyers of course and few people like lawyers....It reminds me of that old lawyer joke:

'How are an apple and a lawyer alike? They both look good hanging from a tree.'

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Completely agree - RIP Justice RBG. There had been a lot of talk of her basically being in a coma for the past year or so, with progressively worsening health. I found (find) the whole obsesssion along these lines pretty macabre, and I'm surprised people haven't heard of her, TBH.

That said, I can't say I agree much with a lot of her political stances. I don't have to though, to recognise the force she's been in the US legal system.

As for the partisan sniping, with "bUt ObAMA diN'T gET to SeLECT a JUDGGE in tHe SaMe cIRCUMstanceSS!!!":

LOL. He is within his consitutional rights to nominate, and the Senate are within their constitutional rights to reject that nomination, irrespective of what was said. As if the Democrats wouldn't be doing exactly the same if they held the Senate and the Presidency. As if they don't already indulge in gutter partisanship, as we've seen over the past 4 years of "Orange man bad".

Go spread your hate and bad spelling elsewhere

You are 100% right. The US system really is unfit for purpose and at the heart of the divisiveness now dragging them down. It needs to be radically overhauled but their determination to cling to an outdated constitution no matter what ridiculousness it delivers is going to go on causing problems. Linking ourselves to this failing giant rather than the EU is just plain stupid.

The cynical idea that our Judges are simply "puffed up lawyers", as described by the usual suspect here, makes me wonder just how much actual experience they have ever had of one.

I have had on several occasions. Always as a plaintiff, I hasten to add. I have never failed to be impressed by their wisdom and fairness. I once took a government ministry to Court and won an appeal against a decision. Never a hint of political bias. Not for nothing are the political views of our Judges regarded as entirely personal and irrelevant to their loyalty which is solely to the law. As we witnessed when the Supreme Court found against the government last year.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

RBG has been ill for may years and Democrats feared this day would come. Obama tried to persuade her to step down whilst he was president and she could have cherry picked her successor. She refused as she is entitled to so the mess is all on to her.

Trump is entitled to pick a new judge and the senate is entitled to accept or reject it.

If this upsets the Democrats then they should blame their beloved "Notorious RBG" who to some appeared to enjoy the limelight too much.

One more point