A Wall Street Journal editorial on Thursday properly and strenuously castigated Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her, ah, shall we say, intemperate, extremely unseemly political comments, of the past week.
The Journal especially deplored Justice Ginsburg’s remarks for how they might hurt the “reputation” of the Court. Ginsburg, the editorial notes, seems “oblivious” to the damage she is doing in making the Supreme Court seem to be “a purely political body”.
I have some news for the Wall Street Journal: that ship has already sailed. The Court’s reputation is already in tatters. It IS a purely political body.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that pathetic old Bolshevik, has no regard for the US Constitution. She has advised foreign governments which may be in the process of trying to establish democratic republics, to “not look to the US Constitution” (see below).
In 2012 she recommended to Egyptian revolutionaries in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring” as they were preparing to write a new governing document, that they look at the South African constitution.
And that’s a justice who has sworn to uphold the US Constitution. And she doesn’t even like it! From a Fox News report:
As Egyptian officials prepare to send to trial 19 American democracy and rights workers, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgvisited Cairo last week where she suggested Egyptian revolutionaries not use the U.S. Constitution as a model in the post-Arab Spring.
“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. “I might look at the constitution ofSouth Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done.”
As Egypt prepares to write a new constitution, Ginsburg, who was traveling during the court’s break to speak with legislators and judges in Egypt as well as Tunisia, spoke to students at Cairo University, encouraging them to enjoy the opportunity to participate in the “exceptional transitional period to a real democratic state.”
DLH
She luuuuves the concept of an independent judiciary, one not anchored in a constitution of course, just desired outcomes, call it an oligarchy. And “democratic state” she says, the concept of a republic is lost on her. R Mall
