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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn’t Understand Her Job. If RBG wanted to be a lawmaker, she should have run for Congress.
National Review ^ | September 22, 2020 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 09/22/2020 8:54:38 AM PDT by karpov

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1 posted on 09/22/2020 8:54:38 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

To “make justice bigger” can only mean to make government bigger.

And government is too big already.


2 posted on 09/22/2020 8:58:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Racial Prejudice and Population Control

           
Mrs. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t 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


3 posted on 09/22/2020 8:59:16 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: karpov

You’re confused. Liberals can legislate from the bench, conservatives cannot.
Understand?


4 posted on 09/22/2020 8:59:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CharlesOConnell

bookmark


5 posted on 09/22/2020 9:00:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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As the season approaches, I’m reminded of one of my warmer Halloween experiences from a few years ago — beating a young lady in a black robe with RBG letters in a costume contest.


6 posted on 09/22/2020 9:01:33 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: karpov
She wanted to make law, but knew she could never get elected (or didn't want to endure the hard work and messiness associated with elected office).

So, she cheated.

7 posted on 09/22/2020 9:01:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BenLurkin

Like all modern leftist judges, she absolutely wanted to a lawmaker. And being a judge, by her premises for judges, was the right place to be.

A legislator may pass a law, but any judge can invalidate it. And any judge can write their own rules, with little or no likelihood of it being invalidated, except by another member of the judge-club.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. But it sure has worked out this way.


8 posted on 09/22/2020 9:02:42 AM PDT by RedElement
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Yes, “judicial review” and “abortion” don’t belong in the Constitution.

Oh, wait....


9 posted on 09/22/2020 9:04:35 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: karpov

exactly


10 posted on 09/22/2020 9:05:25 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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Good points. There would not be the battles over abortion that we’ve been having if the issue had been addressed in the State legislatures. The invention of law by judges is transitory. It can be reversed at any time.

The USSC should be determining matters of law. If they want to beat a drum for injustice there are plenty of examples. Like the 5 year prison sentences for storing Weed-B-Gon wrongly. There’s plenty of cruel and unusual penalties passed by legislatures every year. Any American commits at least two felonies every day unknowingly thanks to the overreach of State and Federal lawmakers. Maybe the USSC could address those issues rather than carrying water for Parties that can’t get their per legislation passed and signed.


11 posted on 09/22/2020 9:05:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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They can’t get underground fast enough to suit me....27 years of stupid is enough!!!


12 posted on 09/22/2020 9:06:15 AM PDT by ontap
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To: treetopsandroofs
"As the season approaches, I’m reminded of one of my warmer Halloween experiences from a few years ago — beating a young lady in a black robe with RBG letters in a costume contest."

So... what was YOUR costume??

13 posted on 09/22/2020 9:07:18 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (My mind is wandering, and I'm following it!)
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Appropriately, Bob the Builder.


14 posted on 09/22/2020 9:08:27 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: karpov

Great article!


15 posted on 09/22/2020 9:09:39 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: CharlesOConnell; Liz
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of." (Ruth Bader Ginsburg

- 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

16 posted on 09/22/2020 9:09:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: CharlesOConnell; Liz
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of." (Ruth Bader Ginsburg

- 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

OMG

17 posted on 09/22/2020 9:10:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: Seruzawa
Yesterday some judicial tyrant directed the post office put on more workers and overtime to ensure that the mail gets delivered on time regarding ballots and the like. I somewhere missed where that was a province of the courts but then again, I was educated before american history and civics was removed from curriculum in favor of black history and the like.
18 posted on 09/22/2020 9:17:03 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: jackibutterfly
So... what was YOUR costume??


19 posted on 09/22/2020 9:24:35 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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Article is a refreshing contrast to Republicans’ usual compulsion to say nice things about leftist jurists who have spent years demolishing America from the bench. They did the same thing when Thurgood Marshall died. These jurists had their good qualities, but the damage they did should not be swept under the rug.


20 posted on 09/22/2020 9:25:06 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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