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Yes
Is she old? Is she a dinosaur? Get her out. Oh wait? THIS CHICK? SHE IS AMAZING. I love her.
She is just what the system needs. Thank YOU BILL CLINTON.
NOTHING SUPREME Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said in recent interviews about the presidential election should surprise anyone familiar with her biography and her career on the court. A lifelong left-of-center lawyer and feminist innovator who was appointed to the high court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, the 83-year-old Justice Ginsburg fits the profile of a Hillary Clinton supporter to a T. Obviously, she would rather have a Democrat appointing her next new colleague, and possibly her replacement.
Nor were any of Justice Ginsburg’s disparaging comments about the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, untrue, at least not as we read the evidence. When Justice Ginsburg, elaborating on her previous anti-Trump remarks to the New York Times, told CNN this week that Mr. Trump “has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego,” she certainly got no argument from us on the merits. (A brief dissent from the justice on one point, though: She rightly protested that Mr. Trump has not released his tax returns but incorrectly chided “the press” for being “very gentle with him on that.”)
However valid her comments may have been, though, and however in keeping with her known political bent, they were still much, much better left unsaid by a member of the Supreme Court. There’s a good reason the Code of Conduct for United States Judges flatly states that a “judge should not . . . publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office.” Politicization, real or perceived, undermines public faith in the impartiality of the courts. No doubt this restriction requires judges, and justices, to muzzle themselves and, to a certain extent, to pretend they either do or do not think various things that they obviously do or do not believe. As the saying goes, however, “hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.”
As journalists, we generally favor more openness and disclosure from public figures rather than less. Yet Justice Ginsburg’s off-the-cuff remarks about the campaign fall into that limited category of candor that we can’t admire, because it’s inconsistent with her function in our democratic system. Only 16 years ago, a key issue regarding the outcome of the 2000 presidential election wound up at the Supreme Court, whose decision in favor of Republican nominee George W. Bush, backed by five conservative Republican appointees, was regarded as controversial by many and nakedly partisan by some. Think of how that situation would have played out if one or more of the justices had previously mused about leaving for New Zealand in the event of a victory for either Mr. Bush or his opponent, Democrat Al Gore.
When the story of Justice Ginsburg’s career is written, there will be many highlights — her pioneering work as a lawyer advocating women’s rights; her many trenchant opinions on the high court in defense of American society’s underdogs. Her performance this week, alas, confirms her fallibility.
Why? because she offended Trumplestiltskin?
I think she is perfectly fine there.
Unless Justice Ginsberg has medical and/or cognitive maladies of which I am not aware, there is no reason anyone can point to why she should resign that doesn't distill down to "SHE'S A STOOPID EBIL LIBRUHL."
I think there IS a principle argument to be made that SCOTUS justices should no longer serve lifetime appointments (given the dramatic rise in life expectancy and the much more rapid pace of societal change than in 1790), but that argument doesn't apply to Ginsburg in particular.
I LIKE HER. She is a saving grace in that bunch. But I agree with you. Good or bad, even school teachers do not deserve to be placed in some guaranteed permanency where a career is concerned. I can see having credibility and even great pay raises and perks for accomplishments, but a guaranteed future, no matter what, is just foolhardy. Every 10 years is plenty. Then have a re-vote or whatever.
No.....She's just one in a long line of people who think that Trump sucks !
No, Notorious RBG should tell the bloviating orange bastard to go s**t in his hat.
The Code of Conduct for judges does not apply to Supreme Court justices. There's no official reason to justify impeachment proceedings against RBG.
