In the statement, Justice Ginsburg says she regrets comments she made about Trump, but political experts say there are no take-backs.
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Her comments enraged Trump and leading congressional Republicans, and thrust the 83-year-old justice into the middle of the heated presidential campaign.
Donald Trump called on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign early Wednesday morning, joining an outpouring of criticism that is giving a divided Republican Party a fresh common target.
There was no follow-up tweet from Trump after Ginsburg’s apology.
That time a Supreme Court justice went hunting with the VP: The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia came under fire in 2004 after he went duck hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney in Louisiana – just weeks after the court said it would hear a case involving the vice president’s energy task force. The one situation where I could potentially see it applying would be if the election were to somehow end up in a situation similar to the 2000 election that resulted in legal disputes over the legitimacy of the outcome that called on the Supreme Court to make a decision that would effectively determine the outcome of the election as it did in Bush v. Gore. “You better vote for me because if you don’t, we’re going to have more Ginsburg in the Court, ‘” Gerston said.
“If the integrity of the Supreme Court is based on the notion that Supreme Court justices do not have a preference about who wins a presidential election, then the integrity is based on pure fantasy and everybody knows that and judicial impartiality does not require a justice to hold no personal opinions”, he soon added after expressing disagreement with constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley’s take on Ginsburg. I think Thursday’s move was as much Ginsburg’s as the original remarks. “The press seems to be very gentle with him on that”.
Ginsburg, the 83-year-old senior liberal member of the high court, inserted herself into the USA presidential election in recent days by making negative remarks about Trump in a series of media interviews.
The leader of the court’s liberal wing sought to quiet complaints that she crossed a line in her remarks about Mr Trump, saying in a statement that judges should not comment on candidates for public office.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said her comment “shows bias”. The moderately conservative justice’s husband consequently told guests that she wanted to retire but wasn’t willing to do so if it meant her successor would be appointed by a Democratic president.
No matter how idyllic our notions of a Supreme Court may be, judges simply can not rule in a vacuum void of politics, Baker said. She has drawn a cult-like following among young people who have nicknamed her The Notorious R.B.G., a play on American rapper The Notorious B.I.G.
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“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.
