Ginsburg 'regrets' Trump remarks

[SteveG]

However, you'll notice she doesn't withdraw any of them.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'I regret making' Donald Trump remarks
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/r...index.html
(CNN)Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday she regrets remarks she made earlier this week to CNN and other news outlets criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
"On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them," Ginsburg said in a statement. "Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect."

Ginsburg extensively criticized Trump as "a faker" in an interview with CNN earlier this week. Her comments enraged Trump and leading congressional Republicans, and thrust the 83-year-old justice into the middle of the heated presidential campaign.
Ginsburg's remarks to CNN as well as to the Associated Press and The New York Times created a highly unusual week at the Supreme Court. Not only was it unprecedented for a member of the current court to delve so deeply into a presidential campaign, but a statement expressing regret is also quite rare.

[$tevie]

A very well-phrased apology. Of course she won't take what she said back.

[RgrF]

She did make a mistake by injecting herself into the election, it's a shame that officials can't be outspoken for fear of political fallout. Either way, she's now on record. Sandra Day O'Connor preceded her but that was scuttlebutt (true but nonetheless scuttlebutt) and of course St. Scalia paved the asphalt as far as SCOTUS public pronouncements go.

At the end of the day, it means nothing other than that she'll have to live to 100 if derTrumpenfuhrer wins.

[GGD]

RgrF wrote:
At the end of the day, it means nothing other than that she'll have to live to 100 if derTrumpenfuhrer wins.

Longer than that, we can never replace a justice because every president is an "outgoing president" from the day they take office.

[sekker]

My respect for her only goes up.

[tenders]

She's a clever old coot who knew exactly what was going to happen after her remarks.

I think she did it to elevate consciousness that the next president will have two SCOTUS seats to fill early on - Scalia's and hers. She'll be announcing her retirement soon and was doing what she could with a measured political commentary to try to avoid moving the court in Trump's direction, whatever that would turn out to be.

Trump fell for her trick - "resign your position." Really? Is he acknowledging that Congress should approve one or both of the open positions then?

I'm a reluctant Republican this time around but I think the failure to approve a replacement for Scalia is unconstitutional dirty pool.

[Dennis S]

I think she is so close to the action, feels so strongly, and has such a bullhorn that she just had to do it.

[mrbigstuff]

GGD wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
At the end of the day, it means nothing other than that she'll have to live to 100 if derTrumpenfuhrer wins.

Longer than that, we can never replace a justice because every president is an "outgoing president" from the day they take office.
Exactly. And what I imagine these things will degenerate to in a hurry.

[bfd]

If there's another problem with hanging chad… she'll have to recuse herself.

[Speedy]

bfd wrote:
If there's another problem with hanging chad… she'll have to recuse herself.

But not Justices Scalito, Thomas, Kennedy and Roberts, they'll hang anybody.