Posted on 09/22/2020 8:54:38 AM PDT by karpov
Justice in Drag
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did a great many interesting and impressive things in her life, but she never did the one thing she probably really should have done: run for office. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasnt an associate justice of the Supreme Court not really: She was a legislator in judicial drag.
You need not take my word on this: Ask her admirers. Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a vision for America, Linda Hirshman argues in the Washington Post. What was her vision? To make America fairer, to make justice bigger. That is not a job for a judge that is a job for a legislator. The job of making law properly belongs to some people find this part hard to handle lawmakers. Making law is not the job of the judge. The job of the judge is to see that the law is followed and applied in a given case. It does not matter if the law is unfair or if the law is unjust that is not the judges concern. If you have a vision for America, and desire to make the law more fair or more just, then there is a place for you: Congress. That is where the laws are made.
This distinction is an important one. As you may have noticed over the course of the summer, Americans do not agree on everything. Some of us have ideas about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary that are radically different from the ideas other Americans have about what is good, decent, fair, just, wise, intelligent, prudent, and necessary. Democracy is not good for very much, but democratic institutions are how we settle those disagreements.
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Sadly, you can say that of many of our jurists.
Great line from the author.
“Handing out indictments for hypocrisy in Washington is like writing up people in New Orleans at Mardi Gras for public intoxication.”
Justice Ginsburg didn't fail to understand her job; she refused to do her job.
All the more reason to nullify RvW.....RBG knew it was racist from the getgo.....as was the harridan, Margaret Sanger.
She sure as hell DID understand her job. She’s a leftist. She understood along with all leftist apparatchiks that their leftist agenda cannot be enacted legislatively. For the pas 60 years they have used the courts to legislate, contrary to the constitution (what constitution?).
So yeah, she understood her job. And she did it as well as any. And even though she died during Rosh Hashanah, I wouldn’t give you 2 cents for her chances in the hereafter.
Right about now she is getting a just review on just exactly how millions of babies had their lives terminated and she was lucky enough to make it for 87 years living in the lap of luxury.
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we dont want to have too many of.”
- United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in Emily Bazelon, “The Place of Women on the Court”Adobe Acrobat file, The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009.
McConnell needs to get this done....if he fails, R-party will cease to exist.
And it needs to be before the election, because if Trump loses and/or Rs lose the Senate, the usual cast of RINO losers will cave and agree it should wait for the Admin and/or Senate.
what they need to do, is confirm the nominee of course, then if they do lose the Senate, use the lame duck session to restore the filibuster rule back. Require 70 senators for cloture.
then tell Schumer to pack-this.
I imagine she wanted to maximize her power and prestige—and she did.
Oh, she understood her job. And she did it exactly as the democrat party wrote the job description.
Not really fair to pin that on her.
They ALL think that way.
Ruth who?
Irony in this comment considering her Jewish roots
Absolutely. A dem judge's job is to get things done that elected lawmakers cannot. SCOTUS can declare it and it's done, and nobody can do a damned thing about it short of a constitutional amendment. One SCOTUS justice is worth more than a hundred congressional seats because they can advance their disastrous and unpopular agenda without consequences or any chance to overturn it ever.
There is only power, and the will to use it.
I like what Justice Scalia said and how he avoided judicial activism.
The truth is that the judge who looks outside the Constitution always looks inside himself and nowhere else. And the more you look outside the law, the less you protect Americans freedoms.
bmp
OK, now that’s funny!
That's it in a nutshell.
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