Still love ya, Notorious RBG
Me too. No harm no foul RBG
Truly a class act. If only we had nine of her caliber on the Supreme Court.
I love this woman. âI shouldnât have done it. We donât have to parse every letter. Iâm done with this topic.â Oh yeahâŚthe best!
WellâŚwe canât. Because, you know, REPUBLICANS.
Well put, RBG. But thatâs the advantage of having a lifetime appointment. Helen Thomas didnât have the same option.
Video review confirms her original call was correct.
I remember that episode well.
A repost from yesterday:
" RBG Is Hardly the First Supreme Court Justice to Mess With Presidential Politics
SCOTUS justices have been taking sides in U.S. politics since the ink was still wet on the Constitution.
By Linda Hirshman
July 13, 2016
Better to jump out of the frying pan than end up in the fire. She regrets calling Donald the Dickhead Trump dangerous, divisive, disillusioned and dumb and thatâs that.
The operative word is âregretsâ and also âill-advisedâ and now, âincautiousâ. If it were me, I would have said uncautiousâŚBut then spellcheck would have told me ânopeâŚredline, stupidâ. Shows you what I know.
Sheâs done with it, Iâm done with it. And thankfully, she never did make herself apologize for her statement because truthfullyâŚshe was being truthful.
Thank you Justice Ruth âKikiâ Bader GinsburgâŚ(her childhood nickname).
She said what she meant. Should she have done it given her role as a Justice? Probably not. Iâd like to see the Donald ever say he did something wrong, regrets anything he has ever done. The man has no humility.
Wait a second. So many TPM commenters were accusing the NY Times of âClinton Derangement Syndromeâ for saying the same thing Justice Ginsburg said, except a day earlier. What gives?
If RGB agrees with the Times, doesnât that mean she too suffers from âClinton Derangement Syndromeâ?
Or does it mean we all ought to give shoot-the-messenger firing squads against the most liberal major newspaper in the country a rest?
âIt was incautious but heâs just such a screaming assmunch,â Ginsburg told NPRâs Nina Totenberg.
I remember very well the Day OâConnor remarks. I think she might have also said or implied that sheâd finally consider retiring once a repub was elected.
There is also the infamous duck hunting incident with Scalia and his bud Cheney, and Scalia immediately went on the defensive dismissing all the criticism of this trip which was ahead of a pending SCOTUS ruling regarding Cheney. He had no interest in protecting the courtâs integrity unlike what Ginsburg seems to have done here. From NYT
Justice Scalia, having lowered the bar for judicial ethics by refusing to acknowledge the reasonableness of questions about his impartiality, has guaranteed that the Supreme Court will end up embarrassed, no matter which way it rules.
@arc_of_the_universe You get 117 âlikesâ from me, one for each of the Pulitzers the NYT has been awarded.
She apologized for making a mistake; when is the last time you have hears any Republican apologize for ANYTHING??? Bless you, Justice Ginsburg; you are a national treasure.
Her criticisms of Trump were âincautious,â but spot-on.
Unfortunately, to those susceptible to the kind of 5th grade âdominance politicsâ that Josh M and others have identified as one of the keys to Trumpâs success (so far), this is a clear win for Donald. Because to these folks, the the accuracy or inaccuracy of her criticisms makes exactly zero difference. The way they see it, all that really matters is that RBG criticized Trump, Trump criticized RBG, and then RBG âbacked down.â Which means Trump âwon.â So this exchange clearly helps him a lot with his hard-core 5th-grader-mentality base. Of course thatâs not really where he needs the help. How it plays to the broader electorate, I donât knowâŚ
Wait a minute. RBG is not some virgin on her first date. She knew it was âincautiousâ when she said it.
She showed her true patriotic colors when she folded and backtracked. She, like many others, blinked when attacked by Donald âthe draft dodging coward and asshole loserâ Trump. It just shows she no longer has any iron in her spine.
Exactly, and with RBGâs walk-back coupled with the NYTâs âTrumpâs rightâ bit, Donaldâs grandiosity should be in ultra zoom modeâŚ
True strength is not shown by unwillingness to bend. Unwillingness to bend, to ever apologize, is Trumpâs inadequacy.
Iâm pretty sure that RGB knew exactly the type of firestorm she would create when she said what she did. She let it sit and stew out there and then withdrew by saying she âregretsâ making the statements that are now very clearly out there in crystal clear black and white text.
As I keep saying, Trump has long ago left the realm of politics and is operating in the realm of immoral and intentionally hurtful actions. Most glaringly his continual association and wink wink nudge nudge affiliation with white supremacist groups.
At this point he has left the grey line or shadow area and is very very clearly, black and white, a bad man⌠It is necessary for all of us to speak up and against Trump and his hateful rheteric.
RGB has done that.