Posted on 09/21/2005 8:10:54 PM PDT by Crackingham
Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday that she doesn't like the idea of being the only female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. But in choosing to fill one of the two open positions on the court, "any woman will not do," she said.
There are "some women who might be appointed who would not advance human rights or women's rights," Ginsburg told those gathered at the New York City Bar Association.
The retirement of Ginsburg's colleague Sandra Day O'Connor has fueled speculation about whether President Bush will nominate a woman to her position.
Federal Judge John G. Roberts originally was Bush's nominee for O'Connor's seat but now is facing a Senate vote on the position of chief justice, a role empty after the death of William H. Rehnquist.
Ginsburg stressed that the president should appoint a "fine jurist," adding that there are many women who fit that mold.
"I have a list of highly qualified women, but the president has not consulted me," Ginsburg said during a brief interview Wednesday night.
Ginsburg arrived in New York to attend an annual lecture named in her honor. The lecture's focus is on women and the law.
This year, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, delivered it, while Ginsburg participated in a question-and-answer session afterward.
During the session, which was attended by hundreds of people, Ginsburg defended some of the justices' references to laws in other countries when making decisions, a practice strongly opposed by some U.S. legislators. The justice said using foreign sources does not mean giving them superior status in deciding cases.
"I will take enlightenment wherever I can get it," she said. "I don't want to stop at a national boundary."
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Hey GINSBURG, you stupid BITCH!!! Your JOB is to interpret laws according to the U.S. CONSTITUTION, PERIOD! That is the United States CONSTITUTION, not some fracking foreign law that supports your MARXIST position!
Its PAST time for our ELECTED so-called "representatives" to grow a pair and start IMPEACHMENT proceedings against these blacked-robed tyrants!!!!
No, Ginsburg is a woman. Women sometimes come like this. It is foolish to idealize one half of the human race and be blinded to what they are capable of.
It's not her job to seek enlightenment or seek to impose her enlightenment on us or on the court. It is her job to reach decisions strictly on the Constitution. She should be impeached for her comments.
Here's to an ultraconservative W.A.S.P. being the next appointee.
Boy I hope that President Bush nominates Janice Rodgers Brown or Priscilla Owen.
Can you imagine the tension in the Supreme Court lunchroom when Ruth has to sit next to one of them?
Quite possibly Ginsburg's appointment is one of the worst ever made.
Good idea! Rush Limbaugh for Supreme Court justice! Maybe she'll quit in disgust! At least he talks about OUR Constitution!
She has failed and history will show we live in an embarrassing age of bigoted SC justices.
They are no different than the justice's who supported the idea that slaves were property.
Can she name one? I doubt it. Ginsburg isn't the brightest bulb in the pack...
Hey, Ruth Buzzy, re-read the Constitution. YOU don't get to say jack-squat about who gets nominated, that is reserved for the PRESIDENT.
I live in this fantasy world I guess. I have seen the type before, I just try to deny they exist.
"...who would not advance human rights or women's rights
As a woman and a human, I don't think we need two sets of rights. Or is she saying women are not human?"
No, I think she's saying men are not.
Obviously, when it comes to abortion, she's of the position that men are utterly unimportant, worthless and powerless bystanders to women's "rights."
Seemingly, it's not enough for her that GWB nominate a woman (which, as I've argued before, I consider sexist on the face of it) - to please her, he must nominate a liberal, and preferably hideously UGLY woman. Then Ruthie wouldn't feel so lonely at nights, as she scours the arcane laws of outer Mongolia, looking for some justification for further subverting the U.S. constitution.
Yes, there always is one. They chase lemmings into the sea.
Sounds almost like desperation to me.
Seriously though. A Judge is not to advance anything. That is an attorney's job. Her admission of arrested development is damning.
She should be impeached immediately using this current 'spew' as evidence to go along with all the other overwhelming evidence proving that she is completely unfit to judge anyone or anything.
"As a woman and a human, I don't think we need two sets of rights.",
I've always wondered about this: I'm a woman, too, and why do I need a separate set of rights? I have human rights, and I have all of the freedoms bestowed by God - so why does my womanhood give me more rights? Oh, I get it: I was a "victim" so now I have, what's Spectre's phrase, "super-duper" rights? Ginsberg is another old 60s leftist hippie loon. Fade away, Ruth; go back to the ACLU (All Criminals Love Us).
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