Discussion: Experts Say Ruth Bader Ginsburg Walks A Fine Line With Criticism Of Trump

While I share Justice Ginsburg’s obvious opinion of Donald Trump, I wish she hadn’t gone there. Though she–like every other U.S. citizen–has a right to free speech, she holds a very unique, very special position in our society, our democracy: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a sitting Supreme Court Justice. It has always bothered me when that asshat Antonin Scalia made known his opinions about certain subjects–in particular gay rights of any sort, pushing religion onto others through the rule of law, or pretty much anything big corporation–and I always felt he should recuse himself from a lot of those cases. Justices Kagan and Sotomayor are the only two I have noticed recusing themselves. If a case involving Trump reaches the High Court while Ginsburg is still a sitting Justice, she likely will be expected to recuse herself. Believe me, I totally understand her sincere concern for this nation should Trump ascend to the Oval Office – I get that. I believe she is expending a lot of capital here and forever tarnishing her near-perfect reputation as a Jurist. That said, I’m not in her head – I have no inside knowledge to her thinking, her calculations. Still, she’s Spot On with her observations about Donald J. Trump.

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I also regret Justice Ginsburg’s remarks. But is there anyone who does not think that the Court has become political? Politicians all want to stack the court in their direction. Can we not find jurists who are not chained to an ideology?

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Are there many people just waking up from 20-year comas?

Bush v. Gore was decided along political lines. A strict constitutional constructionist would not have tread on a matter pertaining to a particular state. This was a state election to choose state electors. If Florida could not have made a decision by the time the electors met to vote, then the House should have decided the election. Strictly by the Constitution…but that wasn’t how the strict constructionists decided it, was it?

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Humanity requires that all who can speak against the rise of fascism in America. The justices who fail to do so lack humanity and integrity both. There is no integrity which includes Trump, as he has none himself.

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This “Justice Sandra Day O’Connor muttered, “this is terrible” after George W. Bush was declared the winner of the 2000 election, according to Newsweek.” is incorrect. She said it after Gore was declared the apparent victor in Florida. Here is the quote from Newsweek

“This is terrible,” she exclaimed. She explained to another partygoer that Gore’s reported victory in Florida meant that the election was “over,” since Gore had already carried two other swing states, Michigan and Illinois."

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“…her remarks present an unexpected break with tradition and could sow distrust by leading people to believe that the nation’s highest court is a political player.”

Would anyone who believes the fairy tale that the Supreme Court is now apolitical please step forward? I’d just like to check to see whether you also believe we live in a democracy, that our vote matters, that the nation was founded on egalitarianism, and all those other fairy tales we were brainwashed with in grade school.

For crying out loud, significant portions of our Presidential elections revolve around Supreme Court implications. There will be campaign speeches and adverts coming out of our ears over it.

This is no time for people of conscience to be silent. Trump has been touted as breaking all the rules. So be it.

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I mean…of course she walks a fine line. She knows it too. She’s not stupid.

She’s not criticizing a sitting President and I believe that’s where the distinction should be made.

And to act like the Court hasn’t been political is hilarious.

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I too wish she had not gone there, and I am sure she would not have if she was not at the end of her career. That being said, I a struck at how little commotion this has actually caused at websites like Weekly Standard and National Review. It’s almost like they are glad it happened because it unleashes guys like Alito and Thomas.

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The court wasn’t political in 2000? Or when they gutted the Voting Rights Act? This right wing court is the most activist court ever stacking the deck for Republicans every chance they can.

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If I had to guess, I suspect she’s planning to retire fairly soon. She wanted to say her piece now because she certainly did not want her replacement to be nominated by the likes of D. Drumpf.

As she’s well aware, Drumpf is the most unqualified individual (both mentally and temperamentally) to be a presumptive nominee of a major party in the modern age.

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Does anyone think that people with authority and respect for the rule of law should have remained silent as fascism rose in Europe? Ruth Bader Ginsburg can tell the difference between a legitimate political candidate and an impostor who respects no lines, fine or red, who has launched a racial attack on a judge whose authority over him he doesn’t like and just slurred RBG with dementia. Is it enough for liberals to deplore the raw Supreme Court politics of the 2000 election? To be quietly outraged when Scalia went hunting with Dick Cheney? To stand up for restraint? Where’s the fine line between silence and complicity?

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Just released! Here is the Republican Party platform for it’s upcoming convention!
I used the one link with colorful little drawings so the majority vast of it’s poorly educated, racist, and homophobic etc lemmings & supporters won’t have any problems in understanding what they are attempting to read or comprehending what they’ve just read!

14 Points of fascism: The warning signs

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

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It’s not like Trump criticized her during a State of the Union, and she shook her head and mouthed ‘Not true’. http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2010/01/justice-alito-mouths-not-true-024608

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Love your avatar. Tip of the hat.

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Scalia never politicized the bench. Yeah right.

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Here again the degradation of the left. Starting about 30 years ago, the right became entirely politicized. Everything was politics to them. The news media, Christmas, the entire PC thing. Now it seems the left has caught up with this disgusting attitude. This isn’t about idealism It’s about cynicism.

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This was a well-researched and well-written article.

I reject the opinion of the “experts” — their opinion of what a Justice is supposed to do, based on the way the world is supposed to work.

In a nation based on equality, Ginsburg is no different than anyone else, and enjoys the same freedom and responsibility to speak out.

It’s the “experts” who associate her title with her opinion, not her.

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One candidate for POTUS sleeps daily in a bed he sh^ts daily.
And we get served up breathless pearl-clutching
from a series of MsManners-sounding sources.
Sounding straight out of the 1950s.

There is a tsunami of lies, bigotries, and empty rhetoric
put forth by a corrupt nominee for POTUS-- on any given day.

Instead we get gasping ‘oh-noes!’ from the mezzanine
over obvious truths being uttered by a respected SCOTUS jurist.

jw1

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“…her remarks present an unexpected break with tradition and could sow distrust by leading people to believe that the nation’s highest court is a political player.”

The Supreme Court inserting itself in the 2000 presidential election already accomplished that, so pearl-clutching is a bit late.

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