Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling.
Three times in the past week, Justice Ginsburg has publicly discussed her view of the presidential race, in the sharpest terms. In an interview with The Times published Sunday, Justice Ginsburg said, “I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” joking that if her husband were alive, he might have said, “It’s time for us to move to New Zealand.”
Earlier, in an interview with The Associated Press that appeared on Friday, when asked to consider a Trump victory, Justice Ginsburg replied, “I don’t want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs.”
On Monday Justice Ginsburg doubled down, calling Mr. Trump “a faker,” who “has no consistency about him.” In that interview, with CNN, she added: “He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.”
Mr. Trump responded on Tuesday. “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” he told The Times. “I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”
There is no legal requirement that Supreme Court justices refrain from commenting on a presidential campaign. But Justice Ginsburg’s comments show why their tradition has been to keep silent.
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Ginsburg was instructed to make those comments.
ReplyDeleteThere is a concerted agenda to destroy America and control its politics. It is an international agenda and Ginsburg works for the elite who run the world government apparatus.
The Supreme Court's members are to maintain the sanctity of the Court and do the judicial work of the Court, not weigh in on political matters. This puts shame on the Justice and the Court.
ReplyDeleteYou are so smart, great job.
DeleteAny public servant, politician, Judge, Officer, anyone over 70 needs to be removed from office. Mandatory retirement from it, they are all suffering from some form of dementia, and infirmity.
ReplyDeleteGreg, I agree, most of the judges and politicians haven't got a clue about the real world, or what is going on around them.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the local old farts that won't retire, they keep hanging onto the job, not letting younger people have it. Mandatory retirement for all t 70!
2:04: In that case hitlery won't qualify to be president. Her birthday is in october & I believe she'll be 70.
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