NY Times Editorial Board: ‘Donald Trump Is Right About Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’

The editorial board of The New York Times somewhat surprisingly sided with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in his feud with liberal darling and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ginsburg threw the first punch Sunday, saying she didn’t want to imagine an America under Trump and joking about moving to New Zealand. After criticism of those remarks, she doubled down in an interview with CNN, calling him “a faker” who “says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.” Trump soon hit back saying “her mind is shot” and calling Ginsburg an embarrassment to the Court.

But The Times was not amused by the octogenarian’s antics. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to drop the political punditry and the name-calling,” they write.

The editorial board allows that there are no rules requiring justices to stay politically neutral, but argue that the longstanding precedent helps preserve the independence of the judiciary. “Just imagine if this were 2000 and the resolution of the election depended on a Supreme Court decision. Could anyone now argue with a straight face that Justice Ginsburg’s only guide would be the law?”

The Times of course gives Trump equally low marks on the issue of judicial independence, citing his treatment of Mexican-American judge Gonzalo Curiel. “All of which makes it only more baffling that Justice Ginsburg would choose to descend toward his level and call her own commitment to impartiality into question. Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit.”

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