RBG deathwatch thread
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She cannot succumb quickly enough to old age, IMO
No wonder they call her Notorious RBG. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared war against Donald Trump, announcing that if he was elected president, she’d consider moving to New Zealand.
It would be a good place for her. I haven’t done a double-blind study, but it’s hard to recall — or find on the web — an instance of another Supreme Court justice diving into politics quite the way Ginsburg has just done.
Ginsburg’s comment came in an interview with the New York Times’ Supreme Court scribe, Adam Liptak. He was so astounded that he warned his readers before he reported her comments that normally justices “diligently avoid political topics.”
Ginsburg, Liptak noted, “takes a different approach.” Then he quoted her as saying in her Supreme Court chambers: “I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president.”
The justice said something similar to the Associated Press the day before. But it was to Liptak that she said she was reminded of what her late husband would have said: “Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand.”
It wasn’t the only line she crossed in the interview.
Ginsburg also daydreamed out loud about overturning the gun-rights case known as Heller. The Times even seemed to want to protect Ginsburg from the fallout from this error of judgment, deleting it from the article until sharp-eyed readers called out the paper and the lines were restored.
The Trump comments are even more controversial. Imagine if one of the conservative justices had said such a thing about the prospect of, say, a President Hillary. There’d be a cacophony of calls for impeachment. Or at least demands that the justice recuse him/herself in cases involving Clinton.
Remember what happened when Justice Antonin Scalia, on a hunting trip in Louisiana, fetched up in a duck blind with Vice President Dick Cheney? Even though Scalia never made any political comments, the controversy rattled on for weeks.
The New York Times got so upset about it that it demanded that the other eight justices on the Supreme Court step in and remove Scalia from a case involving the vice president. The court ignored the Gray Lady’s advice.
Ginsburg’s electioneering wasn’t been met with even a peep of protest from the editorial board of the Times — or any other DEMOCRAT Party-aligned paper. Then again, she’s a liberal.
When Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court, the left even tried to make an issue of his wife’s job in the Bush administration’s Labor Department. Not only must a conservative judge stay out of politics, the left reckons, but so must his spouse.
Six years ago she fetched up in Egypt during the so-called “Arab Spring” and gave an interview to Al-Hayat television, which asked her for advice in forming the country’s new constitution.
“I would not look to the US Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she said. She went on to suggest that Egyptians might look at the constitution of South Africa.
“That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary,” Ginsburg said (as if this were not the case with the Constitution she is bound by oath to support).
To Egypt the justice also commended Canada’s new Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Europe’s Convention on Human Rights. “Yes,” she said, “why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?”
All those constitutions dole out rights like peanuts. South Africa’s grants people the right to a name, an occupation, a labor union, a clean environment, housing, health care, education, language and culture.
Ginsburg failed to mark for Egypt a difference with America’s Constitution: Ours grants almost no rights at all. What it does is prohibit the government from interfering with pre-existing rights.
https://nypost.com/2016/07/11/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-unhinged-assault-on-trump/
No wonder they call her Notorious RBG. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared war against Donald Trump, announcing that if he was elected president, she’d consider moving to New Zealand.
It would be a good place for her. I haven’t done a double-blind study, but it’s hard to recall — or find on the web — an instance of another Supreme Court justice diving into politics quite the way Ginsburg has just done.
Ginsburg’s comment came in an interview with the New York Times’ Supreme Court scribe, Adam Liptak. He was so astounded that he warned his readers before he reported her comments that normally justices “diligently avoid political topics.”
Ginsburg, Liptak noted, “takes a different approach.” Then he quoted her as saying in her Supreme Court chambers: “I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president.”
The justice said something similar to the Associated Press the day before. But it was to Liptak that she said she was reminded of what her late husband would have said: “Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand.”
It wasn’t the only line she crossed in the interview.
Ginsburg also daydreamed out loud about overturning the gun-rights case known as Heller. The Times even seemed to want to protect Ginsburg from the fallout from this error of judgment, deleting it from the article until sharp-eyed readers called out the paper and the lines were restored.
The Trump comments are even more controversial. Imagine if one of the conservative justices had said such a thing about the prospect of, say, a President Hillary. There’d be a cacophony of calls for impeachment. Or at least demands that the justice recuse him/herself in cases involving Clinton.
Remember what happened when Justice Antonin Scalia, on a hunting trip in Louisiana, fetched up in a duck blind with Vice President Dick Cheney? Even though Scalia never made any political comments, the controversy rattled on for weeks.
The New York Times got so upset about it that it demanded that the other eight justices on the Supreme Court step in and remove Scalia from a case involving the vice president. The court ignored the Gray Lady’s advice.
Ginsburg’s electioneering wasn’t been met with even a peep of protest from the editorial board of the Times — or any other DEMOCRAT Party-aligned paper. Then again, she’s a liberal.
When Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court, the left even tried to make an issue of his wife’s job in the Bush administration’s Labor Department. Not only must a conservative judge stay out of politics, the left reckons, but so must his spouse.
Six years ago she fetched up in Egypt during the so-called “Arab Spring” and gave an interview to Al-Hayat television, which asked her for advice in forming the country’s new constitution.
“I would not look to the US Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she said. She went on to suggest that Egyptians might look at the constitution of South Africa.
“That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary,” Ginsburg said (as if this were not the case with the Constitution she is bound by oath to support).
To Egypt the justice also commended Canada’s new Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Europe’s Convention on Human Rights. “Yes,” she said, “why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?”
All those constitutions dole out rights like peanuts. South Africa’s grants people the right to a name, an occupation, a labor union, a clean environment, housing, health care, education, language and culture.
Ginsburg failed to mark for Egypt a difference with America’s Constitution: Ours grants almost no rights at all. What it does is prohibit the government from interfering with pre-existing rights.
https://nypost.com/2016/07/11/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-unhinged-assault-on-trump/
If the DEMOCRATS fail to gain a simple majority in the Senate, we can wait, fellow Russian bot.
