In House testimony today, Loretta Lynch…
…performs the extremely-limited extremely-modified hangout.
And although it’s not directly related, what’s up with Ruth Bader Ginsburg going on and on lately about the awfulness of Donald Trump? In this case, Trump is the one taking the high road, and he’s absolutely correct:
“I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Mr. Trump said. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”
He continued: “That she should be saying that? It’s so beneath the court for her to be making statements like that. It only energizes my base even more. And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible.”
Allahpundit has some theories, and this one seems most likely to me:
…she’s already planning to get off the Court as soon as possible. Four days ago, anticipating her “RBG Uncensored” knocks on Trump this past weekend, Ginsburg told a reporter from the AP that the next president, “whoever she will be,” will likely have multiple Supreme Court vacancies to fill. That was a hint that she’s on her way out and that she thinks Hillary has this in the bag. She may feel so confident about Clinton’s chances and so sure about her own impending retirement that she’s lost her inhibitions about signaling bias against the other party’s nominee, suspecting that she’ll never have to rule on an initiative of President Trump’s.
Ginsburg is getting old, and it may be a sign of some sort of age-related disinhibition. Another idea I have is that her friendship with Justice Scalia acted as a check on her, and this check has been removed since his death.
To add yet another insult, Ginsburg seemed to be relieved that Scalia died so he wouldn’t be the deciding vote to set precedent in the case against Obama’s illegal immigration decision.
What a vile piece of work she is, and that’s not even bringing up her eugenicist views.
Taking the liberty of introducing an off-topic comment, here.
FYI
I was glancing through a comment by Artfledgerer-er-er and I noticed mention of Jon Haidt, and what appeared to be a reference to a recent essay, in what looked like a quote Atrfuldiggerereer had taken from a blog.
Tracking, I found that Haidt had originally posted it to the pages of The American Interest. Note the title.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/10/when-and-why-nationalism-beats-globalism/.
I also noted in some of the comments that were made below, mention of Peter Berger. I had no idea he was still alive.
Many who studied at the multi-avenue intersection of psychology/history/philosophy/and sociology, will remember his name and his work on the “social construction of reality”.
He still lives; and has a blog: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/byline/berger/
Or it could just be that she is an arrogant and not very nice person, who does not think that the normal rules of decorum and grace apply to her. I am trying to be circumspect in my judgments here. Of course it is possible that age related dementia plays a role. Isn’t that an encouraging thought considering the power she wields?
RBG is a complete disgrace. Always has been.
So now not liking Trump or saying bad things about him is a disgrace? If Justice Thomas says something bad about Hillary will he be labeled a disgrace? Note that Trump is clearly not taking the high road. Taking the high road would be saying nothing. If her views are inappropriate then so are his towards her. So I’d say it breaks even.
MDL = Hillary zealot?
Remember all the terrible things that used to be said about John Ashcroft, and of Ed Meese before him? How true were any of those in the end?
And yet, we have today an Attorney General who is derelict in her duty, with an obvious case of dishonesty and corruption, leading to a compromise of national security. There’s also Eric Holder right before her, using the Department to push liberal policies, and often ignoring or minimizing wrongdoing by Democrats.
As for Ginsburg, perhaps there are similarities to another former Justice, William O. Douglas (1989-1980)? I think her feelings come from a belief that the Left is always more intelligent and morally superior to the other side.
Do I not recall that this is the same sitting Supreme Court Justice who went to Egypt and advised the Egyptians that they did not want a Constitution based on or inspired by ours, which is simply dreadful, or a disaster, or whatever the disrespectful put-down was.
RBG has given a whole new meaning to the phrase, “The Full Ginsburg”.
On another note, the war that is coming is being ignored, and neo has turned down the position of being the first to track it and show how its building up… something she has applied to WWII… and wondered, but is not applying to the war that is coming
China threatens to impose air defence zone on disputed area of South China Sea
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/13/china-declares-right-to-set-up-air-defence-zone-in-south-china-s/
one conflict and our economy goes into the tank with people starving, riots, and more…
but thats ok..
lets cover the lynch thing which is not news, not much to comment about, and is quite robotic in its dialogue and outcomes…
enjoy…
nothing like a war your not prepared for and wasted the years of warnings to ignore…
Its coming because it has the most chance of winning right now, regardless of who is going to be in office…
or do you think once the conflict starts, even if small, they will continue to make stuff for us and give us replacement parts for our military equipment?
and people wonder how wars start…
hah
they start cause people dont want to believe or pay attention to the signs and stuff that happens way before they do, and do something.
as with obama and other things, you have to be in the sh*t to realize your in the sh*t… there is no avoiding it because there is no belief…
i explained this way back around 2008, that belief is everything… (which the dems know, and others dont believe! ergo their bs plays to beliefs, while logic cant do a thing about it any more than it can prove or disprove god… )
Re: Artfldgr above:
I think Chinese leaders may have put themselves into a box by underestimating the validity of the Philippine case when it was filed. They have stoked the nationalism of their people and they have some choices to make for what actions to take without “losing face”. Of course I agree that their long term belief and aim is to dominate the region, but in this particular case, they may have acted prematurely and too aggressively without serious considerations for the legal basis of their expansive claims.
Artfldgr:
Have you read this analysis on the recent legal events regarding China the Philippines and South China sea?
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/07/12/china-loses-court-case-of-the-south-china-sea/
@MDL – Politicians often criticize Supreme Court justices, in general and in specific. I think Ginsburg’s criticism of a presidential candidate is unprecedented.
Lawyers, you may recall, like to look to precedent as a guide to understanding things, for good reason. Not that precedent is always correct, but that it gives a person who may have thought about this more than you have a chance to weigh in.
Neo:
“…performs the extremely-limited extremely-modified hangout.”
Curious. Why did you hyphenate rather than use a comma – ‘extremely limited, extremely modified’?
Eric:
If you follow the link I placed on the word “hangout“, you get the following historical reference to Nixon:
So you see that there are no commas in the original, and I added the word “extremely” in order to modify the original, so I hyphenated it each time.
Artfldgr, just because the war you speak of is a probability, it does not diminish the threat of our own government. It is basically a horse race to see which one of the several threats will get us first; will it be the government threat from within, or one of the several possibilities from without, or a some combination of both? We don’t really know at the moment. This blog seems to focus more on conservatism and politics, there are other quality sites that highlight those topics such as strategypage and debkafile.
Neo,
Interesting.