[GOP_Raider]

The fact that a majority of the States reflecting, after all, the majority sentiment in those States, have had restrictions on abortions for at least a century is a strong indication, it seems to me, that the asserted right to an abortion is not "so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental"

Justice William H. Rehnquist, in dissent of Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

[mathurine]

Ginsburg knows that it was Supreme Court decisions, not anything in particular that the legislative or executive branches did which caused conservatism to coalesce as a political force to be reckoned with. I well remember when Barry Goldwater got thumped by Johnson as badly as McGovern and Dukakis got thumped by Republicans once the Conservatives had found their political voices. I think Ginsburg remembers that, too. She is doing what she can to take the heat of Obama on the abortion issue in hopes that the Conservatives will not quite coalesce sufficiently to keep Obama out. Once he’s in, Ginsberg can safely retire, as can other liberal justices, secure in the knowlege that Obama will appoint other ones as bad or worse than they are.