The right’s been going crazy about this statement by RBG:

I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said Sunday, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.”

Trolling, like I said.

But honestly, I think Ginsburg loves her job. If she didn’t, she would have retired during Obama’s term so that he could appoint a very liberal justice to replace her. She could have done it any time during the eight years he was in office, and most of that time she had no reason to believe his successor would inevitably be a Democrat.

But she didn’t do it. And if she didn’t do it then, why on earth would she do it now?

And of course she hopes she retains her faculties and stays on a long long time. Ninety years old, however, has been the de facto limit so far for SCOTUS justices, with Oliver Wendell Holmes (the jurist, not the poet) the oldest at ninety, like Stevens. There’s no de jure limit.

Ginsburg’s a competitive sort. Maybe she wants to beat the record. She certainly will if she can; one thing she does not want is for President Trump to name her replacement.

[NOTE: This post was originally on my older blog and had comments, but unfortunately the comments didn’t transfer over here.]