Trump Wants Ginsburg Off The Supreme Court ASAP For Criticizing Him

This isn’t the first time Ginsburg has spoken publicly about her opposition to Citizens United. I have no better theory.

She also remarked ruefully that if her late husband were still alive, he’d suggest: “Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand”. “He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment”, Ginsburg said in an interview with CNN’s Joan Biskupic. “He really has an ego”, she said.

Trump fought back, calling her remarks “beneath the court”. “To think that there’s a possibility that he could be president”. Her voice trailed off gloomily. How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns?

“I thought Heller was “a very bad decision”, she said, adding that a chance to reconsider it could arise whenever the court considers a challenge to a gun control law”.

Nor do I believe that such restrictions are constitutional or desirable. She has said he’s a “faker” who should release his tax returns, that she “can’t imagine” a Trump presidency, and that “everything” would be up for grabs with him occupying the White House. It only energizes my base even more.

That’s one theory – that she’s already planning to get off the Court as soon as possible.

In an interview earlier this week, she said a Trump presidency would be unimaginable for the country and the Supreme Court.

“At first I thought it was amusing”, she told CNN Tuesday of Trump’s presidential bid. Even Trump skeptics typically put his chances of winning no lower than 20 percent. In recent comments to the New York Times, Ginsburg raised eyebrows with a series of pontifications about the 2016 presidential election, as well as highlighting some legal precedent she’d like to overturn. Yet if such a case were to arise again, and justices were to vote according to the party of the president who appointed them, Trump would enjoy the advantage of a 4-3 majority. See, for instance, Canon 5 (A)(2) of the CCUSJ or Rule 4.1 (A)(3) of the MCJC.

Ginsburg, known as a champion of women’s rights issues, wrote a dissenting opinion on the Heller case and has maintained those beliefs.

Hillary Clinton says the election will be far more enjoyable now that she and Bernie Sanders are on the same side. If the question today is whether Ginsburg is breaking with judicial protocol, fairness dictates that the answer is yes. Why not let Ginsburg campaign with Hillary in the interests of transparency? I wish that more of the justices would explain that the Senate’s refusal to consider this nomination, as well as nominations for lower federal court judgeships, is seriously interfering with the functioning of the courts. But we’ll lose something. “I am not aware of any justice ever expressing views on the merits or demerits of a presidential candidate in the midst of the campaign”.