Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is old, very old - er, well, perhaps not that old because at 80 she's only six years older than me, and you all know that I still have all my marbles when I can remember where I left them.
Anyway, according to Yahoo News, 'Babe Ruth' has let it be known that she has absolutely no intention of retiring from the Supreme Court which has caused one or three Obama apparatchiks to grind their teeth in frustration. It is essential, as they see it, for one or better still, two, of the older judges to retire so that their places can be clinched with suitably Left-wing candidates chosen by a Left-wing president. But the old dame is not for retiring and so I wish her well, er, up until a Republican wins the presidency in which case I may put her name out to a contract hitman!
David
A truly distinguished (in)Justice.
The July 7, 2009 edition of the New York Times carried an interview on The Place of Women on the Court
with Justice of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg ".
Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
Q: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
Emphsis is mine.
Posted by: Hank | Sunday, 07 July 2013 at 01:33
She sounds totally batty but I do hope she hangs in there until a Republican gets the pick of her successor. The White House is going to be putting pressure on her via their puppets in the media but she sounds conceited enough to withstand it.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 07 July 2013 at 08:46