Justice Ginsburg Criticizes ‘Partisan’ Kavanaugh Hearings

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at The George Washington University last week, and the highly politicized confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh were brought up as a topic of discussion. While Ginsburg is known as one of the liberals on the court, she decried the massive politicization of the Court, primarily from those sharing her own ideology.

After being asked what the difference was between the kind of confirmation hearings we’re seeing today, with all the showboating and partisan hysterics, to the confirmation hearings of the past, she succinctly replied; “The way it was, was right. The way it is is wrong.”

No kidding. The hearings were plagued by all kinds of mindless partisan showboating, where Senators like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were more interested in producing ready-for-CNN soundbites than actually questioning Kavanaugh about his legal rulings.

Cory Booker compared himself to Spartacus at one particularly hilarious moment where he threatened to publish classified documents that had been declassified the night prior, and Kamala Harris asked Kavanaugh a series of questions on abortion so that she could publicly misrepresent his answers afterward.

Ginsburg recalled how despite her left-wing politics, she was confirmed by a Senate vote of 96-3 only two months after she was nominated by former President Bill Clinton. “The vote on my confirmation was 96-3, even though I had spent about 10 years of my life litigating cases under the auspices of the ACLU,” she said. “No senator asked me any questions [about the ACLU] — not about that,” she said.

To further argue the point that SCOTUS confirmations used to be bipartisan, she pointed out that the late Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0 despite his own political leanings.

“Think of Justice Scalia, who’s certainly a known character in, what was it? 1986. The vote was unanimous, every Democrat and every Republican voted for him. That’s the way it should be, instead of what it’s become, which is a highly partisan show. The Republicans move in lockstep, and so do the Democrats. I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back to the way it was,” she added.

Listen below:

A number of conservatives were delighted to see that even Ginsburg could see the anti-Kavanaugh circus for what it is.

Ginsburg’s comments came just before Christine Blasey Ford was revealed as the previously anonymous accuser, alleging that Kavanaugh groped her at a high school party in the 1980s. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the accusations.

While Ford’s accusations must be taken seriously, many have questioned the suspicious timing of the reveal. Of all the time to derail the Kavanaugh nomination, his accuser waited until the week the Senate would be voting to confirm him? Susan Collins, who is one of the RINOish figures many thought could vote against confirming Kavanaugh, questioned the timing of the bombshell, asking “If they [Senate Democrats] believe Professor Ford, why didn’t they surface this information earlier so that he could be questioned about it?”

Ford revealed her sexual assault allegation to Sen. Diane Feinstein in a letter and has since agreed to testify before the Senate. Surprisingly, Feinstein refuses to let Ford testify, despite being the one to make her allegations public. And there’s perhaps an ulterior motive: Ford has donated to over 60 left-wing groups (including 10 donations to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign), and sported a “pussy-hat” at an anti-Trump rally. Additionally, Kavanaugh’s mother, once a circuit court judge, ruled against Ford’s parents in a 1996 jugdement.

Ginsburg personally says she expects to retire within 5 years, which would give Trump another nominee, provided he wins the 2020 presidential election. Admittedly, I’m not exactly sure she has five more years.