{"id":15849,"date":"2016-07-11T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2016-07-11T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:09:00","slug":"yes-justice-ginsburg-crossed-that-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15849","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Justice Ginsburg crossed that ‘line’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When judges get appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, they usually follow a set of certain practices.<\/p>\n

One of them is to keep their partisan political views to themselves.<\/p>\n

Sure, their judicial philosophy often reveals their political leanings, but that’s for others to assume.<\/p>\n

With that said, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has crossed a line separating the judicial branch from the rest of the federal government structure.<\/p>\n

She said the following: \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what this place would be \u2014 I can\u2019t imagine what the country would be \u2014 with Donald Trump as our president,\u201d Ginsburg told the New York Times’s Adam Liptak. \u201cFor the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be \u2014 I don\u2019t even want to contemplate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ginsburg’s reference is to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

Very bad call, Mme. Justice.<\/p>\n

It’s OK for justices to think certain things about politicians. It’s quite inappropriate for them to say it out loud. Judicial decorum dictates that they stay above the political fray. These individuals aren’t politicians. Presidents nominate them and the Senate confirms them on the basis of how they determine the constitutionality of federal law.<\/p>\n

Justice Ginsburg, selected for the high court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, would seem to have an axe to grind given her statements criticizing Trump’s candidacy. Trump, after all, is running against the wife of the man who selected her to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Don’t misunderstand me on this point: I have trouble contemplating a Trump presidency, too.<\/p>\n

I, though, am not a member of the highest court in the nation. I can say these things out loud. Justice Ginsburg needed to keep her mouth shut.<\/p>\n\n

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