Ginsburg Drops Bomb On Impeachment...
Ginsburg Drops Bomb On Impeachment – STUNS D.C.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will never be mistaken for a conservative but even she has had enough of the Democrat games.
The 86-year-old justice is an old school liberal. One who believes that both parties should work together to find solutions.
That is a far distance from the modern liberal who believes that everyone must agree with them or be labeled a racist, homophobe, xenophobe and misogynist.
The justice was speaking at an LBJ Foundation event on Thursday, during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, when she made the stunning statements.
“Yes, that’s true… My hope is that someday there will be patriots on both sides of the aisle who are determined to stop the dysfunction we are now experiencing and will decide that their institutional government should work for the benefit of all of the people,” she said, Fox News reported.
The octogenarian justice was asked what her biggest fear was in the next decade for the United States. One might have thought she would have said President Trump, but that was not her answer.
“That is the fear that this polarization will continue, and my greatest hope is that it will end,” Ginsburg said.
“So you think back to how it was in ’93, the person who was my biggest supporter on the Senate Judiciary Committee was not the then-chairman, although the chairman was certainly in my corner; it was then-Senator Biden.
“But my greatest supporter was Orrin Hatch of Utah. And, Strom Thurmond gave me a supply of Strom Thurmond key chains, which has lasted until last year,” she said.
Thurmond was one of the top senators of his time and a prominent Republican from South Carolina.
The comments from the justice came on the same day that Democrat presidential candidate and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren denigrated the Supreme Court and the chief justice in a question she had him read to the Senate during the impeachment trial.
“At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?” she had Justice Roberts read.
It was a ridiculous question and a smack in the face to the court, but no one in the media derided her for attacking American institutions.
“It is the most collegial place I have ever worked. One symbol of it is every day before we sit to hear cases, and every day before we confer on cases, we go around the conference room, each justice shakes hands with every other,” Justice Ginsburg said.
“And that’s the way of saying ‘Yes, you circulated a pretty spicy dissent yesterday’ … but we’re all in this together and we know that the institution we serve is ever so much more important than our individual egos. So to make it work, we have to not just tolerate but genuinely appreciate each other,” she said.
Last year she stunned many when she defended President Trump Supreme Court picks, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Neil Siegel , law professor at Duke University, argued that “nominees for the Supreme Court are not chosen primarily anymore for independence, legal ability, personal decency, and I wonder if that’s a loss for all of us.”
“My two newest colleagues are very decent, very smart individuals,” Ginsburg responded, defending the Trump picks.
No one is ever going to see Justice Ginsburg as a champion for conservative causes, but with the direction the Democrat Party is headed in there is likely going to be a time where conservatives long for liberals like her again.
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