Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday she regrets remarks she made earlier this week to CNN and other news outlets criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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“On reflection, my recent remarks and response to press inquiries were ill advised and I regret making them”.
Promising to be more discreet in the future, the leader of the court’s liberal wing said in a statement that judges should not comment on candidates for any public office. He tweeted that Ginsburg was an embarrassment for making “very dumb political statements about me”.
While it’s not surprising that the liberal justice, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, would be no fan of Trump, her harsh words were surprising coming from a sitting Supreme Court Justice. “For the country, it could be four years”.
The Supreme Court already had been an issue in the presidential campaign, even before Justice Antonin Scalia died in February. She escalated her criticism in subsequent media interviews, including calling Mr Trump a “faker” who “really has an ego”. The candidate himself called on her to resign from the high court, declaring on Twitter, “Her mind is shot”.
“He has no consistency about him. The press seems to be very gentle with him on that”. She may still believe what she said, but she also knows she blundered in saying it. “It’s over and done with, and I don’t want to discuss it any more”. “In nine years I’ve never seen any sort of political issue like that arise between us”.
“And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible”, he said.
The Secret Service and Cleveland police won’t give specifics, but say they’ll be ready for anything and everything at the Republican National Convention.
“In the case of an election dispute, a call for Justice Ginsburg’s recusal is all but inevitable”.
Justices should refrain from commenting on elections, McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, told The AP.
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But that message should not apply to Supreme Court justices, or we lose what is precious about the country we claim to defend.
