She's right, she's absent, and she's dying

She'll be dead and replaced by January.

All the more reason Joe B will need to stuff the court with added liberals in added seats.

Doubtful he'd ever do that.

Imaginary old fashioned bipartisan amity is too important to him.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins oral argument by telephone from hospital

The high court's oldest justice and a four-time cancer survivor, Ginsburg, 87, joined the court's telephonic debate Wednesday morning from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she is recovering from acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition.

And the leader of the court's liberal minority didn't mince words: She criticized the Trump administration's rule exempting employers with religious or moral objections from providing cost-free insurance coverage for contraceptives in unusually sharp terms.

“You have just tossed entirely to the wind what Congress thought was essential,” she told U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who was defending the new exemption that lower courts have blocked temporarily.

 "The women end up getting nothing. They are required to do just what Congress didn’t want.”