Posted on 09/19/2020 4:38:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Because Justice Ginsburg deliberately played politics on the bench, her death at 87 is an appropriate time for political commentary about her work and a successor.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday night after 27 years on the United States Supreme Court. I’m ignoring the Romans warning de mortuis nil nisi bonum (of the dead, say nothing but good). Ginsburg used her seat on the Supreme Court as a political office and, reputedly, her dying wish was political. The politicization of her Supreme Court seat and the political fallout from her death are, therefore, appropriate topics.
Unlike me, the usual leftists who loved her too much (as well as a few Republicans who ought to know better) think that the best encomium for Ginsburg is that she “fought” for “justice and equality”:
That praise -- that she “fought” for “justice and equality” -- sums up everything that was wrong with Ginsburg for it describes a political activist, not a judge. The Supreme Court is supposed to consist of nine people who try, apolitically, to ensure that the United States is run along constitutional lines.
Ginsburg, though, had little love for the Constitution. She was quite open about that in 2012 when she offered some “helpful” advice to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as it was contemplating the Egyptian Constitution of 2012:
“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. “I 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, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A very frightening picture...
Her view of abortion as a means to the end of getting rid of populations you don’t want, if true, is a chilling commentary on her view of what she wanted to achieve in her tenure on the Supreme Court. It cannot be denied that she was a strong willed and intelligent woman, but then, there are several kinds of intelligence and only one kind involves education and book learning which can be very wrong when the welfare of human beings are involved. Our Founding Fathers came up with a Constitution which gave all people the right to freedom, dignity and equality under the law and many Americans believe that right extends to life in the womb.
I think we need a thread dedicated to Ruth’s sayings, views and ‘activism’.
“The law is reason, free from passion.”— Aristotle
RBG was a very passionate and political liberal... She shouldn’t have ever been appointed to the SCOTUS, Hillary selected her to thwart and muck up the court as much as possible. Trump must appoint her competent and lawful successor asap.
A Trump scotus confirmation before election day seals the 2nd term for Trump.
“... the souls of those children who she damned to death through abortion are screaming at her!”
I don’t think those souls are where she is now.
Why is it I can’t get that song from “The Wizard of Oz” out of my head? “Ding dong, the Wicked Witch is dead...”
The biggest thing to remember about Ruthie is that she wasn’t a jurist, she was a political activist in a black robe.
No those souls are not (they are in Heaven where they belong) -— what she did to them - and when they screamed out in pain — that’s what is haunting her for all time!
Wait. What’s all this talk about no nominations until a new president is Innaugurated? What if it’s the same person? How is that “new”.
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