Thursday, July 14, 2016 10:29:27 PM
RBG Is Hardly the First Supreme Court Justice to Mess With Presidential Politics
.. some history ..
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
AP Photo
Three times in the past week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg let the country know she’d prefer that Donald Trump not win the next election. Trump responded that he didn’t much like having her in her job either. “Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot—resign!” Trump tweeted. Cooling down a little, he suggested at least she should apologize: “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Trump said. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”
If what RBG did is a disgrace to the court, she’s in illustrious company.
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She’s been saving her political capital for 40 years, to use in ways that other justices have been doing since the founding. And she’s not throwing away her shot.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/ruth-bader-ginsburg-donald-trump-supreme-court-politics-history-214044
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Lol at the hypocrisy.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123871906 .. classic DD.
"Anyone can throw out words to the public then not back them up." -- oh, that's rich -- on more than one level
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123874861
.. some history ..
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
AP Photo
Three times in the past week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg let the country know she’d prefer that Donald Trump not win the next election. Trump responded that he didn’t much like having her in her job either. “Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot—resign!” Trump tweeted. Cooling down a little, he suggested at least she should apologize: “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Trump said. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”
If what RBG did is a disgrace to the court, she’s in illustrious company.
[...]
She’s been saving her political capital for 40 years, to use in ways that other justices have been doing since the founding. And she’s not throwing away her shot.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/ruth-bader-ginsburg-donald-trump-supreme-court-politics-history-214044
See also:
Lol at the hypocrisy.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123871906 .. classic DD.
"Anyone can throw out words to the public then not back them up." -- oh, that's rich -- on more than one level
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123874861
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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