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Don't Apologize For Blurting Out The Truth, Justice Ginsburg
Forbes ^ | July 15, 2016 | George Leef

Posted on 07/16/2016 4:29:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Many years ago, journalist Michael Kinsley secured a place in our history when he observed that “a faux pas is when you blurt out the truth in Washington.”

Last Friday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg committed a faux pas in a New York Times interview, blurting out the truth that she is intensely partisan and decides major cases on ideological grounds.

Federal judges are supposed to keep out of the political mud, but Justice Ginsburg opined that Donald Trump would be a national disaster. “I can’t imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president,” she said, adding that the prospect of a Trump presidency made her think about moving to New Zealand.

Furthermore, she also revealed that her mind is made up on possible future cases that could come before the Court. She wants a chance to overrule the big Second Amendment decision District of Columbia v. Heller, for one. Ginsburg, like nearly all progressives, is hostile to the idea, clearly articulated in that decision by the late Justice Scalia, that the Constitution protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.

For another, Justice Ginsburg says she wants to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. That is the decision, denounced by Barack Obama in his 2010 State of the Union address with the members of the Court seated in front of him, that keeps the government from clamping down on free speech for parties Ginsburg, Obama, and many others would like to silence on political matters, especially corporations.

So, we now understand that facts and arguments in cases raising First and Second Amendment issues would not matter to Justice Ginsburg. She has her agenda and her mind is made up.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: heller; rbg; ruthbaderginsburg; scotus4dnc; scotus4hillary; scotusimpropriety; scotusshame; supreme; supremedncflack; supremeimpropriety; supremeprrep
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To: reaganaut1

Ms Ginsburg is sick? Alzheimer’s makes people say crazy things you know.


21 posted on 07/16/2016 5:08:47 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (....give war a chance.....)
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To: reaganaut1
very good article. the headline is deceiving.

Great quote:

It is a shame that the judiciary has become suffused with politics, but that was inevitable once the statists began using the courts to provide constitutional cover for their plans to transform the nation. Many Americans already understand that and it would be better if everyone did.

22 posted on 07/16/2016 5:14:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: reaganaut1

Every one who supports what Ginsberg did needs to go down with her. This stuff has to stop or we are going to have radical leftists killing us eventually.


23 posted on 07/16/2016 5:19:36 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: reaganaut1

Fuax pas? If any case comes before Ginsberg that has the word “Trump” in it, she’ll should recuse herself!


24 posted on 07/16/2016 5:19:53 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1; reaganaut1
...she’ll should recuse herself!

Should have read:

...she’ll have to, or should, recuse herself!

I'll have a talk with the typist...

25 posted on 07/16/2016 5:24:08 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: reaganaut1

I wonder if there is any way that Trump could request Ginsburg to perform the swearing in ceremony.


26 posted on 07/16/2016 5:29:36 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: reaganaut1
Federal judges are supposed to keep out of the political mud, but Justice Ginsburg opined that Donald Trump would be a national disaster. “I can’t imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president,” she said, adding that the prospect of a Trump presidency made her think about moving to New Zealand.

...a statement which was greeted with the cheers of approval by tens of millions of American citizens tired of her crap.

27 posted on 07/16/2016 5:30:49 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: reaganaut1

She hasn’t apologized, at least not yet. The left NEVER apologizes.

She only said that her comments were “ill-advised”, whatever the hell that means.


28 posted on 07/16/2016 5:31:11 AM PDT by BobL (If Trump is DENIED the nomination, Republican Officeholders WILL GO DOWN in flames)
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To: reaganaut1
Ginsburg, like nearly all progressives, is hostile to the idea principle, clearly articulated in that decision by the late Judge Robert Bork, of stare decisis, that once the Supreme Court has ruled on a point of Constitutional law, the precedent is final and binding on future Courts, unless there is a Constitutional Amendment.
29 posted on 07/16/2016 5:33:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Now THAT is a faux pas!


30 posted on 07/16/2016 5:33:09 AM PDT by uncitizen (Gloves OFF! Go Trump!)
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To: Candor7

“Any SCOTUS justice who “blurts” is ready for immediate retirement.”

My thinking is the same. About five of them are WAY past their best-by date.


31 posted on 07/16/2016 5:35:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: odawg

You sound surprised by that comment, unfortunately it is an understatement.


32 posted on 07/16/2016 5:37:55 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: reaganaut1
I can't speak about our current pResident without being called a racist.
33 posted on 07/16/2016 5:37:59 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: reaganaut1

Too bad Scalia didn’t tell the world what an A-hole Obama was before he checked out.


34 posted on 07/16/2016 5:39:10 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: virgil

I do not believe that they should be elected. The present system for appointment seems to work. I do believe they should have to face a confidence vote. Would say after they gave been on the court 2 years then every 10 years.


35 posted on 07/16/2016 5:39:23 AM PDT by Kadric
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To: Yo-Yo

Post of THIS thread. Trump might consider it so he can look her in the face and say the OOO.

Yeah, I’m occasionally a dramatista.


36 posted on 07/16/2016 5:41:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: KosmicKitty; Bushbacker1
Do justices recuse themselves from cases? Can they be forced to?

Of course, that's why Leftists were so ticked off with Ruth not being able to just shut up.

By imprudently commenting on the election, she showed her clearly anti-Trump bias, meaning if there's any electoral disputes this fall that make it to the SC - remember Bush 2000? - Ginsberg will be forced to recuse herself.

THAT'S why the Leftists are so upset.


37 posted on 07/16/2016 5:43:00 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: joshhiggins

The pravda presstitutes of the USSA don’t give a damn when that lying bastard manchild Barack Hussein Obama decries the Legislative and Judicial branches, calling them liars, saying they got legal decisions “wrong” but if one of the members of those branches dares criticize the POSOTUS they’ve supposedly committed an act of treason.

And how can Ginbsurg and Obama claim that the SC got decisions “wrong” that they will have to be “revisited” while anytime a decision overreaches and goes their way (same sex marriage) we arv told it is now “settled law” and suck it up.


38 posted on 07/16/2016 5:43:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: reaganaut1

In a sane world, she would have resigned immediately!

Obviously, ours is not a sane world!

“Harridan” fits Ms. Ginsberg!

As do several other defining LIEberal markers of your behavior and character!


39 posted on 07/16/2016 5:43:45 AM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: Kadric

No, I don’t think it works. They’re too political and they can do too much damage in 10 years. It’s becoming rule by fiat. It’s being abused by politicians. I just don’t think it’s working as intended. We don’t have a moral political system anymore. Put them on a shorter leash.


40 posted on 07/16/2016 5:54:11 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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