Posted on 07/08/2018 12:45:51 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Justice Ginsburg: “I Would Not Look to the U.S. Constitution” Posted By Roger Aliman on July 3, 2018 Conservatives are often ridiculed for criticizing activist judges who fail to respect the Constitution. We are told that it is not conservative originalists (labeled ignorant and extremist) but rather enlightened liberal judges—with their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbras—who truly respect the spirit of the Constitution
Conservatives, however, have good reason to be skeptical of the left’s “respect’’ for the Constitution. Just last week, for example, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an Egyptian TV station that she would not recommend the U.S. Constitution as model for Egypt’s new government. The problem, you see, is that the U.S. Constitution is “a rather old constitution.” Ginsburg suggested that Egyptians should look instead to the Constitution of South Africa or perhaps the European Convention on Human Rights. All these are “much more recent than the U.S. Constitution.”
Ginsburg’s comments echo those by Washington University professor David Law, who published a study with Mila Versteeg on the U.S. Constitution’s declining infuence worldwide. In an interview, Law unfavorably compared the Constitution to “Windows 3.1”—outdated and unattractive in a world of sleek and sexy modern constitutions. Such obsession with the age of the Constitution is both absurd and irrelevant.
For one, the Constitution is still among the shortest and most elegantly written constitutions in the world. By contrast, South Africa’s constitution is well over 100 pages long, ×lled with tables, schedules, and such stirring passages as detailed provisions for a Financial and Fiscal Commission:
“A. National legislation referred to in subsection (1) must provide for the participation of – a. the Premiers in the compilation of a list envisaged in subsection (1) (b); and b. organized local government in the compilation of a list envisaged in subsection (1) (c).” And you thought the U.S. Constitution was hard to read. Equally ridiculous is the claim that the Constitution is too antiquated to apply to the modern world. The principles of the Constitution, although ×rst articulated centuries ago, are not tied to the material conditions of a bygone age. They rest on that most solid and enduring of all foundations: human nature.
The Constitution itself contains no policy prescriptions. Rather, it is a short, elegantly written document that create a framework for a free people to confront the political questions of their times. Of course, the real reason progressives swoon over South Africa’s constitution is that it goes far beyond merely establishing a framework for government and guarantees progressive policies—for example, by requiring legislation that prevents pollution and ecological degradation. In other words, the left’s real discontent with the U.S. Constitution is that it does not require Americans to adopt a progressive government and expansive welfare state that provides for every “right” social scientists can justify.
Americans should be very wary of those who would seek to upend the Constitution from the grounding in human nature that has allowed it to endure for more than two centuries and would transform it into an instrument devoted to policies of passing whimsy!
Explain the Oath you took again RGB you traitorous pirate hooker.
Well, if they want a statist, socialist, communist form of government, then she is right; do not look to the US Constitution...
There’s a shocker.
I wouldn’t look to an old battle axe to interpret the U.S. Constitution, either.
We know that, you shriveled up old hag.
That this Leftist ACLU lawyer was overwhelmingly confirmed to serve forever on the SCOTUS exposes the fecklessness of the GOP Senators of that time. They didn’t care whether she followed the Constitution, and she hasn’t.
“I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
“I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
As if we didn’t already know that the US Constitution means nothing to the Marxist left. Elena Fagen and “wise latina” Sonia Sorta-my-whore are both Marxists as well. What swell garbage Democratic Party presidents install on the courts.
“...Egyptians should look instead to the Constitution of South Africa or perhaps the European Convention on Human Rights...”
Ah yes, that one place where slow genocide against the Boers is going forward with no comment, and that other place where MEMES are crimes, and Tommy Robinson languishes in jail without trial or recourse.
Great ideas, you withered ghoul.
rbg should know. She was when they wrote it.
Ginzo disqualified her sorry azz from ‘serving’ on the SCOTUS with a statement like that...
MAGA & make the SCOTUS Constitutionalists again, as it was once envisioned by the Founders!
My belief is that if a justice does not interpret nor believe in the Constitution, he/she should be removed from the position. No rewriting of the laws, no opinion outside of the Constitution should be allowed.
Dear Lord please take this leftist gremlin off the bench. Put the retirement bug in her ear.
It doesn’t matter what you think any more...
She should be removed for that. She has said so many things over the years that she should have been removed over. If you’re not going to follow the constitution, you shouldn’t be in the supreme court.
thanks
>>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an Egyptian TV station that she would not recommend the U.S. Constitution as model for Egypt’s new government.
I agree with her. Our Constitution was written for people with strong Protestant ethics. It could not work for a Muslim nation. It doesn’t even work for our nation anymore now that Protestant ethics are on the decline in favor of Post-modernist thought.
Then the communist slob should be impeached for violation of oath AND that same Constitution. She is there NOT to rewrite the darn thing, but to determine the facts of the case based on that Constitution.
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