Left attacks Ruth Ginsburg
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/11/left-attacks-ruth-ginsburg.html
The long knives on the left are out for Justice Ruth Ginsburg. She failed to retire when Democrats could replace her. They worry that she is not long for the court.
"What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong," Mother Jones said in a headline this weekend.
The story was brutal.
Stephanie Mencimer wrote, "It's not considered polite to point this out, but Ginsburg has been falling asleep on the bench during oral arguments for years. Back in 2006, she dozed off during a redistricting argument for a good 15 minutes - long enough for the courtroom artist to sketch her in repose." The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote, "It's lucky for Ginsburg that the Supreme Court has so far refused to allow television in the courtroom, for her visit to the land of nod would have found its way onto late-night shows."
"It's not just oral arguments that are a problem. Ginsburg fell asleep during two of Obama's State of the Union addresses, and during Pope Francis's 2015 speech to Congress - Justice Sonia Sotomayor had to give her a nudge to wake her up. If Ginsburg can't put herself to bed at a reasonable hour to avoid falling asleep in public - a basic function of her job - what makes anyone so sure that her judgment about retirement was any more realistic?"
Not to mention her judgment on court cases.
And there was this gem, "When a Supreme Court session adjourns, the public isn't allowed to depart until all the justices have left the bench. After the arbitration arguments were gaveled to a close, I got up to leave with the rest of the onlookers. But then everyone stopped. All of the justices had left except for Ginsburg, who was having trouble getting out of her chair. There was an embarrassed silence as members of the press, the bar, and the public tried not to gape as Ginsburg mustered the courage to descend a single step off the bench and finally disappeared behind the red curtain. The contrast between the real-world Ginsburg and the comic-book superheroine of social media was striking." ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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