First she praised him for becoming the first justice in history to hire an all-female team of law clerks. Then she warned the left to knock it off with their Court-packing fantasies. Now this.
When exactly did Ruth Bader Ginsburg get red-pilled?
Regardless, congratulations to her: She’s about to become the first justice ever to be deplatformed. Or the second, I should say. I suppose Merrick Garland was first.
On Wednesday night, Ginsburg delivered a 30-minute speech looking back at the 2018 Supreme Court term and Stevens’s life, before participating in an hour-long question-and-answer session with Duke Law professor Neil Siegel, one of her former clerks. When Siegel asserted during the Q&A that “nominees for the Supreme Court are not chosen primarily anymore for independence, legal ability, [and] personal decency, and I wonder if that’s a loss for all of us,” Ginsburg immediately defended Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “My two newest colleagues are very decent, very smart individuals,” she said…
“Nowadays, when people divide into ‘I’ll talk to my own kind, and the others I have nothing to do with,’ that’s very sad because that hasn’t been the way it was and isn’t the way this country should be,” Ginsburg said. She added that Americans should go “beyond just mere tolerance of different views” to “welcoming different views because they enrich our society.”
“What does Russia have on her?” jokes Gabriel Malor. You heard it here first: Kavanaugh will convince her to become the sixth vote to overturn Roe.
Well, fifth. You know how Roberts is.
Seriously, though, I think Roe explains why RBG will enjoy a completely impenetrable forcefield protecting her from the left for her Kavanaugh praise:
This is, indeed, exactly what a person who may need to get Kavanaugh's vote in a future case should say about him in public. https://t.co/nnM8Kef2lT
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 25, 2019
She hates Kavanaugh, she’s just buttering him up in hopes of winning his vote to uphold Roe. Could be! But praising him for his “decency,” not just his intelligence, feels gratuitous for that task and necessarily means that she’s nominally skeptical of Christine Blasey Ford’s rape accusation against Kavanaugh, right? I can’t find a Ginsburg quote directly on that subject, and understandably so given how awkward the subject would be for her to pronounce upon whether a potential colleague on the Court was guilty of attempted rape. She did note unrelatedly during last year’s Kavanaugh wars that she was encouraged by the #MeToo movement but she also said of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing — before the Ford stuff came out — that it was too partisan. Regardless, she must be the only liberal feminist in the United States willing to describe Kavanaugh as “decent” knowing how sharply that breaks with ideological orthodoxy. Is it possible that the Notorious RBG is a bona fide Ford skeptic?
