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I don't think that her mind is shot.

However, she exercised some pretty bad judgement here.

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doesn't matter. the clerks all run that place. at least according to Bob Woodward's "The Brethren". which was based entirely on interviews with...the clerks.

Any worse than the Senate saying fuck you to their ideal nominee just because Obama is still POTUS?

Yeah, I was surprised that she did that....not quite at the Joe Walsh-level, but regrettable nonetheless.

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Or any time Scalia opened his mouth about anything?

It has nothing to do with what is worse.

Senators are politicians. Supreme Court justices are not.

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They don't run it. But a lot of the opinions on cases are crafted by them.

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Seacrest due respect but if you think that SCOTUS justices aren't poltiicians then you are fooling yourself.

I think what the notorious RBG did was out of line, but if SCOTUS is gonna be a political operation then fuck it. Go whole hog.

I think what the SCOTUS has become would be a great topic of discussion.

They have become more and more political. And it's not a harbinger of good for ANY of us,

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I didn't know these things about her:

In 1977 Ginsburg and feminist Brenda Feigen-Fasteau co-authored a report titled Sex Bias in the U.S. Code for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Identifying an array of federal laws that allegedly discriminated on account of sex, the report advocated the ratification of the then-pending Equal Rights Amendment. In this publication, Ginsburg:

*called for the sex-integration of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, due to her belief that these organizations “perpetuate stereotyped sex roles”

*called for sex-integration in "college fraternity and sorority chapters," and for replacing them with "college social societies"

*called for sex-integration in prisons, because “If the grand design of such institutions is to prepare inmates for return to the community as persons equipped to benefit from and contribute to civil society, then perpetuation of single-sex institutions should be rejected.”

*reasoned that laws against prostitution were unconstitutional because "prostitution, as a consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions"

*urged readers to reject the notion that men should be regarded as “breadwinners,” and women as “homemakers”

*called for reducing the age of consent for sexual acts to persons who are “less than 12 years old”

*stressed a need for “a comprehensive program of government-supported child care”

*called for the abolition of words with sexist connotations, including: “man,” “woman,” “manmade,” “mankind,” “husband,” “wife,” “mother,” and “father”

*claimed that laws against bigamy were unconstitutional.

until I hit the age of consent thing...wow. That's where the next frontier will be.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I'd say directed rather than crafted but I think we are in agreement

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

She is retiring. She doesn't want to Trump to find her replacement.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Crafted if you worked for Scalia or Thomas.

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Sounds like she is staying if Trump wins.

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I don't think she wants anyone as far to the right as Barack or Hillary to name her replacement either. I doubt she retires regardless of the election.

we have bigamy/polygamy, in serial form--instead of being honest and letting men (or women) of means (or just a lot of game) take 2nd and 3rd wives/families without renouncing the first/second/n wife(sigh, or husband)/family, we force families to break apart and run it all through an expensive and detrimental to relationships/family life "family" court system.

that's the craziest "sentence" I've ever seen here.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Ruth agrees with me...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Thursday for "ill-advised" public criticism of Donald Trump, promising to be more discreet in the future.

The leader of the court's liberal wing sought to quiet complaints that she crossed a line in her remarks about Trump, saying in a statement that judges should not comment on candidates for public office.

"On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them," the 83-year-old justice said.

Ginsburg told The Associated Press last week that she did not want to think about the prospect of the Republican winning the presidency over Democrat Hillary Clinton. She escalated her criticism in subsequent media interviews, including calling Trump a "faker" who "really has an ego," in a CNN interview.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George