Posted on 02/23/2017 11:07:39 AM PST by Hojczyk
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the US is "not experiencing the best of times" - but the "pendulum" will swing back.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight in a rare interview, Justice Ginsburg reiterated the importance of the free press. "I read the Washington Post and the New York Times every day, and I think that the reporters are trying to tell the public the truth," she said. Justice Ginsburg was nominated by Bill Clinton and is regarded as a liberal.
Think of what the press has done in the United States," she said citing the Watergate scandal. "That story might never have come out if we didn't have the free press that we do."
Justice Ginsburg said she was encouraged by the Women's March, which saw millions in the US and around the world take part in anti-Trump protests.
"I've never seen such a demonstration - both the numbers and the rapport of the people in that crowd. There was no violence, it was orderly. So yes, we are not experiencing the best times but there is there is reason to hope that that we will see a better day."
Justice Ginsburg has been on the Supreme Court since 1993 and - at 83 years-old - is the oldest serving member.
Asked how much longer she would stay in post, she said: "At my age you have to take it year by year. I know I'm OK. What will be next year?"
She added: "I'm hopeful however, because my most senior colleague the one who most recently retired, Justice John Paul Stevens, stepped down at age 90. So I have a way to go.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Ginsburg. The new “Weekend at Bernie’s.”
5.56mm
She will be stuffed and made animatronic until Trump leaves office.
Seriously? She craps on the US and its Constitution publicly, whenever she gets the chance.
GD WJC...
Nope. It just takes a simple majority of the House to impeach and then two-thirds of the Senate to convict. Unfortunately, that is never going to happen.
Another option would be to resurrect FDR's court packing scheme. Expand the Court by adding a new Justice for every Justice that is over the age of 70.
She is the odds maker’s #1 to leave us alone.
Go to this link and click the picture of a chief justice re the odds of that justice going to hell before the others.
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Wow! She is still stuck on Watergate. All while the Dems have done so much worse since then.
She is another feminist narcissist who refused to retire during the Obama Interregnum because she wanted a woman president to choose her replacement.
The schadenfreude in this is so rich and sweet you need a really dark roast coffee to compliment it.
A clear sign of dementia. Memories go in reverse chronological order, recent memories first followed by older memories. At this point, she probably doesn't remember much that has happened since Watergate. I wonder how often her law clerks have to remind her that she is on the Court?
Miss Birdie’s about all stove up. Can’t stay awake. Always wearing her dissent neck collar.
The best of times will be when Radical Ruth Ginsberg leaves the Supreme Court. Oh, what a happy day that will be for America!
You’re exactly right.
Liberals like her are emotional, not logical.
The mind loses its grip after 65, she should have been gone long ago
Make it even richer and sweeter. Name her replacement now.
With the departure of Sauronbama to the underislands Ruthwitch the Annoying joins with Grimy Billtongue to scour DC. Trumpo wearing his mithril red tie is attacked, causing the other two dissolve to the mists and their spirits are dragged downward to the darkness
A press is not free when it is debauched by an Obama. Obama is at the root of the current destruction of the press.
I thought she left America when Trump was inaugarated?
Once an ACLU radical, always an ACLU radical.
As long as the shriveled up old hag is alive.
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