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Title: Trump demands Ginsburg resign for criticizing him as unfit
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Published: Jul 13, 2016
Author: Vivian Salama
Post Date: 2016-07-13 13:11:30 by cranky
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Donald Trump called Wednesday for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign for saying publicly that she feels he is unfit to be president. Lashing out, Trump said the 83-year-old justice's "mind is shot." "Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee wrote in an early morning tweet on @realDonaldTrump. "Her mind is shot - resign!" Ginsburg said in an interview with The Associated Press last week that she didn't want to think about the possibility that Trump would be president and predicted that Democrat Hillary Clinton will win and have a few appointments to make to the Supreme Court. It is highly unusual for a sitting justice to weigh in so publicly on a political campaign, though Ginsburg is known for speaking her mind on other issues and is celebrated as a liberal icon known to fans as Notorious RBG. In a subsequent interview with The New York Times, she joked about moving to New Zealand if Trump is elected. She escalated her criticism on Tuesday, telling CNN that Trump is a "faker" and questioning how he has "gotten away with not turning over his tax returns." "He has no consistency about him," she said. A Supreme Court spokeswoman did not immediately respond Wednesday to a reporter's request for comment on Trump's criticism. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that it was "totally inappropriate" for Ginsburg to criticize Trump. He said members of the Supreme Court shouldn't weigh in on American elections. "It raises a level of skepticism that the American people have from time to time about just how objective the Supreme Court is, whether they're over there to call the balls and strikes, or weigh in on one side or another," he said. House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN Tuesday that Ginsburg's comments "shows bias to me." Former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who on Tuesday endorsed Clinton, said Wednesday he agrees with Ginsburg's remarks. The Vermont senator declined to say whether it is appropriate for a sitting Supreme Court justice to openly criticize a White House contender. But he told ABC's "Good Morning America" that he agrees Trump is a "total opportunist" and said "the record is quite clear that he lies just a whole lot of the time." Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and is the senior member of the court's liberal wing of justices. 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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#2. To: cranky, hondo68 (#0)
These are from today but refer to Trump and Ginsburg comments preceding Trump's call for her resignation. No text included due to source. Donald Trump Is Right About Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg By THE EDITORIAL BOARD [New York Times] JULY 13, 2016 [snip] Yes, you read that right: The New York Times editorial board said ‘Mr. Trump is right.’ By Callum Borchers July 13 at 10:08 AM [snip]
#3. To: nolu chan (#2)
This is old news on the sites I visit. Here's the first story I read from four or five days ago. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't even want to think about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House. The 83-year-old justice bashed the presumptive Republican nominee during an interview at her office Thursday - and predicted instead that Democrat Hillary Clinton will become the next president. Ginsburg, the leader of the court's liberal wing, said during an interview in her office Thursday that the next commander-in-chief — 'whoever she will be' — will have a few appointments to make to the Supreme Court. 'I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs,' she said when someone asked about a potential Trump presidency. Scroll down for video Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured earlier this year) said in an end-of-term interview Thursday that she didn't even want to entertain the thought of Donald Trump becoming the next president That includes the future of the high court itself, on which she is the oldest justice. Two justices, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, are in their late 70s. 'It's likely that the next president, whoever she will be, will have a few appointments to make,' Ginsburg said, smiling. She showed no signs of slowing down and didn't seem ready to step down any time soon. Ginsburg has been catching up on sleep since the court finished its work last week and will have a busy summer of travel that will take her to Europe. She plans to see as much opera as she can fit in, as is her custom. Ginsburg lost her best friend on the court during this past term and, partly as a result, found herself on the winning side of most of the high-profile cases. 'I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs,' Ginsburg said when someone asked about the possibility of Trump (pictured Wednesday) winning the election Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, depriving his conservative allies of a reliable vote and leaving eight justices to decide nearly five dozen cases. President Barack Obama has nominated Judge Merrick Garland for the ninth seat, but Senate Republicans have refused to hold a hearing or vote on Garland's nomination. They say the next president should have the right to name Scalia's replacement. Even if the Senate were to confirm Garland after the election, the court probably would hear three months of cases without him, Ginsburg said. And if there's no action in a postelection, lame-duck session of Congress, the vacancy could last the entire term, she said. Court majorities this term moved to shut down tactics used by opponents of abortion and of affirmative action in higher education in two major cases, Ginsburg added. She doesn't expect to see any more such cases. The court upheld the use of race in college admissions in Texas and struck down Texas abortion-clinic regulations that the state said were needed to protect patients. 'It seemed to me it was a sham to pretend this was about a woman's health,' Ginsburg said. Ginsburg (pictured with President Barack Obama in January before his State of the Union address) instead predicted that Hillary Clinton would become the next commander-in-chief She misses the colorful, outspoken Scalia, whom she described as charming. 'The public got the wrong impression of him,' she said. Among the many pictures and mementos in her office is one of the two of them atop an elephant in India many years ago. Without him, she said, the court is 'a paler place.' But she thinks she and her colleagues did well to divide 4-4 in only four cases, including one that effectively killed Obama's plan to help millions of immigrants who are living in the country illegally. Another consequence of Scalia's death was an increase in the number of dissenting opinions written by Justice Clarence Thomas, she said. Thomas wrote 18 dissents. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was next, with eight. 'Thomas always wrote a lot of dissents, but I think he was kind of making up for Scalia not being here. He wrote so many,' she said. Ginsburg disputed reports that the court is taking on only relatively unimportant cases while waiting for a ninth justice. 'It isn't so. We haven't selected them with a view to dodging challenging cases. We take them as they come to us,' she said. But Ginsburg did suggest that the court probably would not take up a major challenge to the death penalty any time soon. She joined Breyer's opinion a year ago that called for considering outlawing capital punishment. 'There are only two votes so far to have asked for it so I don't think it's likely, if there is such a challenge, that it would get four votes to grant cert,' she said, using court shorthand. It takes four justices to vote to hear a case, or grant certiorari. Scalia's death essentially broke a tie in the affirmative action case, which ended with a 4-3 decision in favor of Texas' admissions plan, Ginsburg said. Justice Elena Kagan did not take part because she had previously worked on the case when she served in the Justice Department. Ginsburg wrote a short separate opinion in the abortion case to complement Breyer's majority opinion. 'I fully subscribed to everything Breyer said, but it was long, and I wanted something pithy,' she said. 'I wrote to say, "Don't try this anymore."' End of story. Personally, I believe if Clarence Thomas said anything close to that, he would have been lynched.
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