They Said It! (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Endorses Ginsburg Precedent)

Republican National Committee ^ | September 29, 2005

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"[Justice Ginsburg] Said She Agreed With A Position Taken By Federal Judge John G. Roberts During His Confirmation Hearing To Replace The Late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.  Roberts Invoked Ginsburg When He Refused To Speculate On How He Would Rule In Cases Before The Court." (Estes Thompson, "Justice Ginsburg Says She'd Prefer Another Woman On Court," The Associated Press, 9/29/05)

• Ginsburg: "Judge Roberts Was Unquestionably Right ... My Rule Was I Will Not Answer A Question That Attempts To Project How I Will Rule In A Case That Might Come Before The Court." (Estes Thompson, "Justice Ginsburg Says She'd Prefer Another Woman On Court," The Associated Press, 9/29/05)

 

• Ginsburg:  "'A Judge On A Collegial Court Should Never Forecast How He Or She Would Vote On Particular Issues' Because During The Decision-Making Process A Justice Is Exposed To Briefs, Lawyers' Arguments And Discussions With Other Justices ..." (Estes Thompson, "Justice Ginsburg Says She'd Prefer Another Woman On Court," The Associated Press, 9/29/05)

[zendari]

Haha, she just owned Schumer and company.

[Salvey]

Looks as though she made these statements on the same day Roberts was sworn in -- apparently she doesn't want to cross her new boss on his first day on the job.

[Ben Mugged]

Makes sense she would support her new boss......

[Clump]

Too bad the boss can't fire his employees (or at least some of them).

[Clintonfatigued]

And what's the liklihood that Senate 'Rats will observe this?

[Ultra Sonic 007]

For once, Ginsburg says something intelligible.

[rocksblues]

Finally a leftist judge agrees with me! /sarcasm

[Logical me]

What gets me is the idiot Senators that would even as the question. It shows that those Senators expect the SC to make law and they wanted to know beforehand how the Court would vote.

[TXnMA]

What's The Reason For All The Capitals?

[BenLurkin]

Bump

[GenXFreedomFighter]

It may also be that the senators who are heavily financed by the abortion industry have to earn that blood money by making such a high-profile fight. Gotta keep the donors happy.

[t2buckeye]

Let's just hope that the Republicans can use this to their advantage when the next one comes up. At least, Schumer and company will have to try to find a different reason to vote against Bush's nominee

[NeoCaveman]

Long live the Ginsburg Standard.

Too bad it didn't start with Doug Ginsberg instead of Ruth Buzzy.

[Rippin]

The reason is, if these nominees do start giving specifics they will steer to decisions where they thinks things were decided wrongly and violated basic rules of interpretation AND are politically incorrect. It will make the sitting justices look like idiots if teh candidates can start dissecting their opinions in front of the world without anyone there to stop the bleeding.

Do you think they would have liked someone as slick as Roberts to have talked about eminent domain for an hour in front of the whole world??