Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent 

Yahoo News ^ | 7/30/14 | Liz Goodwin

[TangledUpInBlue]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, fresh off a bruising loss in the Hobby Lobby birth control case last month, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her have a "blind spot" when it comes to women. "Do you believe that the five male justices truly understood the ramifications of their decision?" Couric asked Ginsburg of the 5-4 Hobby Lobby ruling, which cleared the way for employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives to female workers on religious grounds. "I would have to say no," the 81-year-old justice replied. Asked if the five justices revealed a "blind spot" in their decision, Ginsburg said yes. The feisty leader of the court's minority liberal bloc compared the decision of her five male peers to an old Supreme Court ruling that found discriminating against pregnant women was legal.

[Gay State Conservative]

...told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her have a "blind spot" when it comes to women."

So says the American Communist Lawyers' Union

[Gay State Conservative]

There’s no reason why men shouldn’t pay for their “lifestyle” needs and there’s no reason women shouldn’t either.

[Lockbox]

Which leads to some people feeling that the Court's rulings do not need to be followed. Read the following story.

Massachusetts Governor Signs Radical Bill Prohibiting Pro-Life Free Speech

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/07/30/massachusetts-governor-signs-radical-bill-prohibiting-pro-life-free-speech/

[driftless2]

Food, shelter, and clothing are far more necessities than birth control. Simply avoid sex, and a person avoids pregnancy.

But everybody has to eat and have a roof over their heads. Why is it not a businesse's obligation to provide food and shelter to their employees if birth control is also designated as a right?

[elpadre]

employer’s health insurance plans should never include coverage for birth control - male or female!!

[johniegrad]

cleared the way for employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives to female workers on religious grounds

No, it did not. It did uphold the RFRA and was a denial of coverage for abortifacients, not contraceptives.

Your post is a very good one. I'm always amazed at what people say about the Hobby Lobby decision and how they miss the salient points.

Sometimes I think the media is lying but increasingly I think they're merely incompetent. And I think Ruth is incompetent here in this interview.

If, in fact, she believes what she's saying here, I don't think she's capable of judging cases. This is frightening beyond just the level of ridicule people ordinarily heap on her. I truly don't think she understands this case.

[Adder]

That means that 4 justices are prejudiced against men by requiring them to pay for procedures and practices they can never use and have no need for????

[william clark]

Guess what, Ruthie? You're supposed to have that same blind spot.

[ontap]

I hope the old witch can hang in there 2 1/2 more years....assuming we can get a conservative in the white house.

[morphing libertarian]

We’ll I’m male and I have a blind spot to her opinions.

[morphing libertarian]

LOL, father and law used to say he was ‘ty-nine years old.

[morphing libertarian]

FIL

[Georgia Girl 2]

I pray Ruth lives 15 minutes past the next GOP President’s swearing in.

[infowarrior]

Her replacement could be worse...

Under the current 'administration' and such likely successors as I fear are coming your above statement should read "Her replacement *would* be worse..."

the infowarrior

[ohioman]

It is sad that I have to pull for this old liberal bitch to stay alive for two more years.

[C210N]

You are beneficent. I wouldn’t have wished for the extra 15 minutes.