NY Times: Trump 'right' about Ginsburg's comments

The New York Times's editorial board says Donald Trump is "right" that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's criticisms of him are inappropriate.

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling," the newspaper said in an editorial published Wednesday.


Ginsburg earlier this week slammed the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, saying she "can't imagine what the country would be" like if Trump were to serve as president. The justice also called Trump a "faker" who "has no consistency about him."
Trump said in response it was "highly inappropriate" that a Supreme Court judge get involved with a political campaign.

The New York Times said Ginsburg's comments show why Supreme Court justices normally remain silent during presidential campaigns.

"In this election cycle in particular, the potential of a new president to affect the balance of the court has taken on great importance, with the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia," the paper's editorial board said.

"As Justice Ginsburg pointed out, other justices are nearing an age when retirement would not be surprising. That makes it vital that the court remain outside the presidential process."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/287509-nyt-trump-right-about-ginsburgs-comments

 

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday offered a mea culpa for a series of recent remarks in which she dreaded the possibility of Donald Trump occupying the White House and called the Republican presidential candidate a “faker.”

“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised, and I regret making them,” she said in a written statement.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/14/judging-justice-ginsburgs-trump-mea-culpa/