Implies that slanted judges STARTED with Trump, rather than Trump readjusting a slanted bench
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/25/on-the-basis-of-sex-review-rbg-223557
Why We Should Worry About the Cult of RBG
The new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic will galvanize her fans. They should consider whether that makes them part of the problem.
By PETER CANELLOS
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There’s a third element to the politicization of the courts, though. That’s the visceral sense of approval and validation that judges get when they please their fans. The 60,000-member Federalist Society provides conservative judges with a Greek chorus of admirers. And many members of the Supreme Court, such as the late Antonin Scalia, couldn’t resist taking bows before conservative audiences for court rulings that devastated liberals.
Anyone who was discomfited by the notion of ideologically supercharged young conservatives praising Scalia for creating a new individual right to bear arms should probably think twice before donning their RBG T-shirts at the next abortion-rights march—or bursting into applause at her next triumphant cinematic moment. These efforts to show popular support and approval for a heroic liberal judge might feel energizing for progressives, but they also remove any sense of stigma or impropriety from conservatives’ far more effective efforts to provide a support network for “their kind” of justices—a movement so aggressive it handed Trump a list of approved high-court nominees before he was even elected president.
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Implies that slanted judges STARTED with Trump, rather than Trump readjusting a slanted bench
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/25/on-the-basis-of-sex-review-rbg-223557
Why We Should Worry About the Cult of RBG
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Great post, mairdie. I’ve posted recently about it before, but part of the attempt of building of that cult of RBG is the movie coming out about her.
Not necessarily recommending strong stomached people go to watch the trailer, but simply documenting it here: