Posted on 09/21/2005 8:10:54 PM PDT by Crackingham
Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday that she doesn't like the idea of being the only female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. But in choosing to fill one of the two open positions on the court, "any woman will not do," she said.
There are "some women who might be appointed who would not advance human rights or women's rights," Ginsburg told those gathered at the New York City Bar Association.
The retirement of Ginsburg's colleague Sandra Day O'Connor has fueled speculation about whether President Bush will nominate a woman to her position.
Federal Judge John G. Roberts originally was Bush's nominee for O'Connor's seat but now is facing a Senate vote on the position of chief justice, a role empty after the death of William H. Rehnquist.
Ginsburg stressed that the president should appoint a "fine jurist," adding that there are many women who fit that mold.
"I have a list of highly qualified women, but the president has not consulted me," Ginsburg said during a brief interview Wednesday night.
Ginsburg arrived in New York to attend an annual lecture named in her honor. The lecture's focus is on women and the law.
This year, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, delivered it, while Ginsburg participated in a question-and-answer session afterward.
During the session, which was attended by hundreds of people, Ginsburg defended some of the justices' references to laws in other countries when making decisions, a practice strongly opposed by some U.S. legislators. The justice said using foreign sources does not mean giving them superior status in deciding cases.
"I will take enlightenment wherever I can get it," she said. "I don't want to stop at a national boundary."
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Last time I checked the Constitution, this was not the function of the Supreme Court.
So much for the lie about Leftist Supreme Court Justices being unpolitical.
It's disgusting and frightening that this hideous creature is on the Supreme Court.
It is inappropriate that a woman on the Court be promoting an individual group rather than enforcing law and the Constitution. R-B-G came onboard with the intention of implementing the Equal Rights Amendment by fiat. Based on that she is unfit to serve.
Ginsberg was an ACLU lawyer, and therefore not qualified to be on the Supreme Court. Imagine if Bush nominated a lawyer from the NRA legal staff.
Please give her JRB. Please!
Lord I hope that Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg is the next one to go.
If not just any woman will do, then just make it Luttig. Bush has appointed more blacks, women, and minorities than any other president but is still accused of being a rascist. Just give us an originalist who might conceivably be confirmed. No further stratergery needed.
"Does this mean if the President nominates a big Hairy man who smokes cigars she will RESIGN???"
Oh boy! That would be so great!
We have had some pretty dumb Supreme Court Justices throughout our history, but can you imagine ANY of them pulling this crap with Presidents like FDR, Lincoln, Wilson, or Jackson?
Further confirmation from this kook Ginsberg that liberals hate traditions. I have never heard of a sitting Supreme Court Justice weighing in on who a president should select for the Supreme Court. It's an outrage.
I wonder if anyone else on SCOTUS will tell her what they think? Publicly?
My suggestion to her is to resign. Then she wouldn't be the only female justice on the Supreme Court.
Churchill remarked about someone that he was the sort of person who gave pedastry a bad name. Well, Ruthie is the sort of person who gives feminism a bad name.
Yeah, I think so. Unless of course, the Big Hairy man is Janet Reno.
If for no other reason, and there are many, this beotch needs to be impeached.
Exactly.
Ruthie is a partisan hack. Pubbies should have filibustered her.
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