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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Trump’s presidency: ‘We are not experiencing the best of times’
MSN/Washington Post ^ | 2/24/2017 | Kristine Guerra (WaPo)

Posted on 02/24/2017 3:10:40 PM PST by HomerBohn

(Watch video at link)

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a noted critic of President Trump, suggested that she doesn't believe the country is in good hands but said she is hopeful about the future.

“We're not experiencing the best of times,” Ginsburg said Thursday on BBC's “Newsnight,” though she did not comment directly about the president.

But, the 83-year-old jurist said the public's resistance to the new administration — on full display at last month's Women's March protests — has given her “reason to hope that we will see a better day.”

“A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle; it is the pendulum, and when the pendulum swings too far in one direction, it will go back,” she told BBC.

“Some terrible things have happened in the United States, but one can only hope that we learn from those bad things,” she added, citing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as an example.

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Ginsburg also defended the free press, the target of repeated attacks from the president, who has called the media “the enemy of the American People.” The justice said she reads both The Washington Post and the New York Times every day and believes that “reporters are trying to tell the public the way things are.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; ruthbuzzy; ruthbuzzyginsburg
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To: HomerBohn
Didn't she say onetime that the best constitution to follow was not the US Constitution but Egypt's?

Or something like that.

21 posted on 02/24/2017 3:23:36 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: scooby321

They’ll still try to get her vote on SC cases


22 posted on 02/24/2017 3:24:08 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: TigerClaws

I’ll bet RBG assumed Hillary would win and then she could retire with a hardcore wymyn’s rights SJW to replace her. One has to wonder about the probablility of an 83 year old woman with cancer living another 8 years.


23 posted on 02/24/2017 3:24:17 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: HomerBohn

No. You are still breathing you evil *itch.


24 posted on 02/24/2017 3:24:59 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: HomerBohn

Go back to sleep Ruthie.


25 posted on 02/24/2017 3:25:11 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

If Alito or Thomas had of said this about Obama the Left would demand they recuse themselves from every case involving the Exec.


26 posted on 02/24/2017 3:26:06 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: HomerBohn

She is part of the reason that we are not experiencing the best of times. Liberalism is the disease that is destroying this nation, and she’s a liberal.


27 posted on 02/24/2017 3:27:06 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: Fantasywriter
Ginsburg is in a bad situation. She should have retired while Obama was still POTUS, and allowed him to name her successor.

It would have been entertaining if she resigned in Obama's final year and the Senate sat on two Obama nominees. (It would have also spared us a bunch of 4-4 rulings where the ties went to the loser activists on the lower courts.)

28 posted on 02/24/2017 3:28:30 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: HomerBohn
I thought she looked familiar:


29 posted on 02/24/2017 3:29:50 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet)
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To: scooby321

“Democrats will say she is not dead if she dies”

The symbolism of Ruth Bader Ginsberg will live forever...in the minds of liberals...for as long as they live.


30 posted on 02/24/2017 3:30:12 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

“Ruthie, long past time to retire and enjoy what’s left of your mortal life...Go before you do more damage to this country.”

And before you store up MORE wrath for yourself “...on the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgments will be revealed.”

I do wish she would follow her Jewish roots to the Cross, where all is FORGIVEN through the Blood of the Lamb!


31 posted on 02/24/2017 3:30:48 PM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: HomerBohn

Yikes! What’s that on her hands?


32 posted on 02/24/2017 3:31:18 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: TigerClaws

Dance?


33 posted on 02/24/2017 3:31:36 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: HomerBohn

She’s right about that pendulum thingy, it almost broke off it had swung so far left. Finally, we are moving in the right direction.


34 posted on 02/24/2017 3:38:15 PM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: HomerBohn

Our time is coming.

Go to this link and click the picture of a chief justice re the odds of that justice going to hell before the others.

For example click Ginsburg’s photo at the link!

Supreme Court Life Expectancy Calculator:

Click each justice below to see how likely it is that he or she will die by Inauguration Day 2021. Click more than one justice to see the likelihood of multiple deaths. To calculate how likely it is that one or more of the conservative or liberal justices will die before that day, click on the boxes on the left.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/02/the_odds_of_another_supreme_court_justice_dying.html


35 posted on 02/24/2017 3:40:21 PM PST by Grampa Dave (No country has a right to ship their poverty laden, killers, rapists & criminals to our/my country!!)
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To: HomerBohn

She is , was and always will be remembered as a political left wing hack. I have absolutely no respect for her ugliness what so ever. I can’t wait until we Nuke in her replacement.


36 posted on 02/24/2017 3:49:11 PM PST by WENDLE (Watch this on John McCain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y)
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To: TigerClaws

I see she’s wearing gloves.I wonder if she read my liver spot comment from earlier this week.


37 posted on 02/24/2017 3:55:44 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Farmer Dean

The old hag LIB extremist is at death’s door. She sleeps most of her day. So sad...no?


38 posted on 02/24/2017 3:56:59 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

My best advise to her would be to sleep with her bedroom window open.The cool air would be beneficial.


39 posted on 02/24/2017 3:57:20 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: HomerBohn

Will SOMEBODY PLEASE embalm her?
When I hear comments of that sort from the likes of her, I KNOW we’re doing something RIGHT!
DEEP $TATE E$TABLI$HMENT’$ WAR ON TRUMP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKSwvVcuqA


40 posted on 02/24/2017 3:57:37 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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