Lee, a former Supreme Court clerk, said he already envisions two scenarios where Ginsburg may have to recuse herself from cases involving Trump. Trump, without an explanation, stiff-armed an invitation to address the 107th Annual NAACP Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, next week. “For the court, it could be – I don’t even want to contemplate it”, she told the newspaper. “How has he gotten away”, she asked, “with not turning over his tax returns?”.
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Hillary Clinton is the likely Democratic nominee. She also faulted the press for being too soft in its reporting of Mr Trump.
“He is a faker”, Ginsburg said Monday of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Trump in an interview with CNN. She should step down voluntarily and resign from the Supreme Court to preserve what remains of her tainted judicial legacy.
It’s no secret that Supreme Court justices have their presidential preferences, but should they be talking about them out loud?
This left the favorite candidate feeling outraged saying he could not believe she would say something of that caliber. Ironically, Senator Lee cited the case of Bush v. Gore, without realizing the O’Conner conflict back then.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been saying unflattering things about Donald Trump over the course of the past week in three different interviews. “Hence why I find this very disturbing and why it’s so out of character for Supreme Court Justices to do this”.
“She is allowed to say it”, the host acknowledged.
At a CNN event on Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan echoed these attacks.
“It is completely inappropriate for Supreme Court justices to inject themselves into a political campaign, no matter what side they’re on”, Carson said.
“Throughout history vice presidential selections seldom make much difference in the election”, Republican strategist Charlie Black said.
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have skewered Ginsburg, with The Times publishing an editorial Wednesday declaring Trump “right” in the war of words.
But in the long history of the precedent-bound Supreme Court, that has never happened, he said.
The White House, however, had only kind words for Ginsburg, an appointee of Bill Clinton. Just last summer, for instance, she called out her male colleagues on the court for having a “blind spot” when it comes to women’s issues.
Ginsburg has also criticized the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate for not acting on President Barack Obama’s nomination of judge Merrick Garland.
Analysts believe that if Garland is eventually confirmed, the court’s philosophical balance would shift toward more liberal rulings on such prominent US issues as abortion, immigration, campaign finance rules and workers’ rights.
One of the high court’s most conservative justices, Antonin Scalia, died in February and the vacancy has yet to be filled.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio suggested Wednesday that the comments were a sign Ginsburg couldn’t be “impartial”. Write to us in the Comments Section or on our Facebook page.
