Posted on 05/20/2015 7:33:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since there was no bride to be the “belle” at the ritzy D.C. wedding of Shakespeare Theater Company artistic director Michael Kahn and Manhattan architect Charles Mitchem this weekend, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who officiated, was happy to play the part. And she did so with panache, says Maureen Dowd:
The most glittering moment for the crowd came during the ceremony. With a sly look and special emphasis on the word “Constitution,” Justice Ginsburg said that she was pronouncing the two men married by the powers vested in her by the Constitution of the United States. . . . The guests began applauding loudly.
For a sitting Supreme Court justice facing a case on precisely this divisive issue, her remark seems — let’s put it mildly — injudicious. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not just some Supreme Court Justice. She is “Notorious R.B.G.”
The coinage, a mashup of Ginsburg and murdered rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls), was the brainchild of then–NYU law student Shana Khiznik in 2013, shortly after Justice Ginsburg issued much-feted dissents in Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative-action case, and Shelby County v. Holder, a case dealing with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since then she has become an Internet sensation: ubiquitous meme, Halloween costume for infants, arm tat, the likeliest candidate on the Supreme Court to be made into an ice-cream flavor. In February, U.S. News & World Report recalled how Ginsburg drank before the 2015 State of the Union (!), once rode an elephant (!!), and another time went parasailing (!!@#$%!!!) — all dredged up “just in case you need more reasons to love Notorious RBG.”
I’m good, thanks.
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Personally, I hope she makes it to 2017. I know she won’t ever retire before then. Democrats are to selfish. At least Obama won’t be able to nominate a younger liberal zealot to replace her.
Hopefully, that task will fall to a Republican President.
The Constitution mentions marriages?
Or would that NOT be one of the ‘enumerated powers’ left to the states, or to the people.
Ginsburg is evil and stupid and a disgrace to decency.
this kind of leftist crap makes me want to gouge my own eyes out.
Traitors rarely do.
don’t be so tuff on “buzzy” Bader.
They have reached ctirical mass, so the masks (and the gloves) are coming off.
You don’t have to be “impartial” when you “know you are right.”
This is what this once-great Republic has come to. Not just the mediocre, but the incompetent and fatally flawed, rise to the top of government.
She has not died of cancer yet?
the fault is in the President who nominated her and the 103rd Senate (D) at the time that confirmed her....the Senate republicans did not do enough to deny her confirmation.
everyone knew what she would be.
Pretty sure she kicked off several years ago, but as with all lower life forms, their nervous system is quite rudementary and it takes a while for the brain to acknowledge that the body has died.
More correctly, they are so close to reaching critical mass. So close yet so far away.
Liberal politics versus America and the Constitution is somewhat like a high-cost experimental project that has not produced many positive tangible results and is facing the serious prospect of defunding. They are becoming foaming at the mouth desperate having child-like fits hoping the voters not want them angry and will let them continue.
Agree. We all know, I think, that should Ruth retire Obama will go with the next minority on the list. He’s already installed a lesbian and an Hispanic....you can guess what’s next on the list. I even think he’ll take a page from Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) history and put a former welfare mama on the board/court. He is all about in-your-face revenge.
Explaining why silly twits like Maureen Dowd love her.
I’m shocked she was able to stay awake for the entire ceremony.
Mediocrity in our leaders leads to apathy in our citizens.
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