Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn’t Understand Her Job. If RBG wanted to be a lawmaker, she should have run for Congress.

National Review ^ | September 22, 2020 | Kevin D. Williamson

[Don Corleone]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn’t Understand Her Job. If RBG wanted to be a lawmaker, she should have run for Congress.

Sadly, you can say that of many of our jurists.

[chuckee]

Great line from the author.

“Handing out indictments for hypocrisy in Washington is like writing up people in New Orleans at Mardi Gras for public intoxication.”

[Interesting Times]

Good article, with a quibble about the title.

Justice Ginsburg didn't fail to understand her job; she refused to do her job.

[Liz]

All the more reason to nullify RvW.....RBG knew it was racist from the getgo.....as was the harridan, Margaret Sanger.

[Migraine]

She sure as hell DID understand her job. She’s a leftist. She understood along with all leftist apparatchiks that their leftist agenda cannot be enacted legislatively. For the pas 60 years they have used the courts to legislate, contrary to the constitution (what constitution?).

So yeah, she understood her job. And she did it as well as any. And even though she died during Rosh Hashanah, I wouldn’t give you 2 cents for her chances in the hereafter.

[Kahuna]

Right about now she is getting a just review on just exactly how millions of babies had their lives terminated and she was lucky enough to make it for 87 years living in the lap of luxury.

[angry elephant]

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

- United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in Emily Bazelon, “The Place of Women on the Court”Adobe Acrobat file, The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009.

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Ginsberg was a racist and thus it is no wonder that she was so revered by the party of the Ku Klux Klan.

[wny]

McConnell needs to get this done....if he fails, R-party will cease to exist.

And it needs to be before the election, because if Trump loses and/or Rs lose the Senate, the usual cast of RINO losers will cave and agree it should wait for the Admin and/or Senate.

what they need to do, is confirm the nominee of course, then if they do lose the Senate, use the lame duck session to restore the filibuster rule back. Require 70 senators for cloture.

then tell Schumer to pack-this.

[9YearLurker]

I imagine she wanted to maximize her power and prestige—and she did.

[DPMD]

Oh, she understood her job. And she did it exactly as the democrat party wrote the job description.

[Phlap]

In a nut shell, the job of a SCJ is to determine, in their view, if a law is constructional. It is the in their view part of that statement that is problematic, as for some, any view will do.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not really fair to pin that on her.

They ALL think that way.

[Bonemaker]

Ruth who?

[mrmeyer]

Irony in this comment considering her Jewish roots

[pepsi_junkie]

Oh, she understood her job. And she did it exactly as the democrat party wrote the job description.

Absolutely. A dem judge's job is to get things done that elected lawmakers cannot. SCOTUS can declare it and it's done, and nobody can do a damned thing about it short of a constitutional amendment. One SCOTUS justice is worth more than a hundred congressional seats because they can advance their disastrous and unpopular agenda without consequences or any chance to overturn it ever.

[Richard Kimball]

There is only power, and the will to use it.

[gattaca]

I like what Justice Scalia said and how he avoided judicial activism.

“The truth is that the judge who looks outside the Constitution always looks inside himself and nowhere else.” And the more you look outside the law, the less you protect Americans’ freedoms.

[gattaca]

bmp

[jackibutterfly]

OK, now that’s funny!

[Rummyfan]

Justice Ginsburg’s using her position to try to impose a feminist vision on federal policy ought to be recognized for what it was: an abuse of power. If you want to rewrite the law along feminist lines, that’s a perfectly honorable project — run for Congress.

That's it in a nutshell.