“I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president”, she said in a New York Times interview on Sunday.
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Several law professors and ethics experts asked about Ginsburg’s New York Times interview told the Washington Post that Ginsburg shouldn’t have commented, while the New York Times features experts on both sides of the issue. This past Monday, Justice Ginsburg told CNN that Donald Trump “is a faker”.
“I think this was a huge, huge error on her part”, he said Wednesday on Fox News.
“Back in the day, before she was known as the Notorious RBG, I clerked for a brilliant judge named Ruth Bader Ginsburg”, Grayson said on Twitter.
But Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of CT said, “I don’t think we’re well served by Supreme Court justices openly expressing their political opinions”.
American history is filled with politically involved justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. That her mind is, quote, “shot” and he’s even calling for her resignation.
TOM LLAMAS: He has a new fight with an 83-year-old, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Mr Pence, 57, a former congressman who has flirted in the past with a presidential run of his own, would be perhaps the safest choice for Mr Trump given his popularity among conservatives and his experience in government.
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law defended Ginsburg’s comments in the Times.
“Sorry, Justice Ginsburg, but those comments were waaaay over the line”, added Walter Olson, a blogger fellow at the Cato Institute.
She called Trump a “faker” on CNN.
Justice Ginsburg talks as if the Court is a purely political body and seems oblivious to the damage she is doing. But Ginsburg did get herself into trouble.
“Her comments were obviously inappropriate”, Cruz said in the Capitol.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a campaign stop at the Grand Park Events Center in Westfield, Indiana, July 12, 2016.
The Times scolded the liberal justice Wednesday in an editorial and called her impartiality into question.
“It’s a rare, probably not the most appropriate thing for a judge to say”, said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., a member of the House Judiciary Committee. They also aren’t allowed to make speeches on behalf of political organizations or give money to candidates.
U.S. Supreme Court justices are not required to follow the code of judicial conduct that applies to judges on lower federal courts.
On July 11, she attacked Trump for not releasing his tax returns.
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Could it be Trump made a typo and wants to “swap” her with someone else, which he can’t constitutionally do? Her opinion on his hot-tempered and immature manner of speaking before genuine reflection has occurred a quality that a leader of a nation should not possess. I think she should apologise to the court.
