Comments on: GOP Endangers Justices’ Lives

By: Washington Post on Ruth Bader Ginsburg at The Liberal Walrus

Washington Post on Ruth Bader Ginsburg at The Liberal Walrus — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:50:48 +0000

[...] remember that a few days ago I wrote about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s speech, wherein she said she had been threatened by an [...]

By: Maryland Conservatarian

Maryland Conservatarian — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:04:15 +0000

You’ll note that today’s (3/21) WaPo has an editorial about Justice Ginsburg’s criticism of her critics.

By: walrus

walrus — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:45:15 +0000

I see your point, and I agree that, if one looked, one could find almost any hateful or ridiculous sentiment expressed somewhere on the internet. I thought that it was newsworthy that Ginsburg felt afraid for her life, and that she drew the connection between that fear and the actions of Congress.

Reading over my post I ought probably to have worded it differently, but I do still believe that Feeney and DeLay, and others to a lesser extent, acted irresponsibly in their statements. Every member of Congress ought to be full-throated in their support of an independent judiciary, and unequivocal in their condemnation of violence against judges.

And I think dissent is patriotic whether I agree with the dissenter or not, because it helps our nation when open debate flourishes.

By: Maryland Conservatarian

Maryland Conservatarian — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:51:54 +0000

Frankly, I expect more out of the Walrus. Justice Ginsburg references an anonymous internet poster, who doesn’t even reference any of the Congressional proposals, and from that we’re to deduce that it was the proposals that inspired it? Because Justice Ginsburg said so? She offers not one iota of evidence to back up such an irresponsible charge.

Congressman Feeney’s comments had nothing to do with the threat and everything to do with the fact that, indeed, the use of foreign law is a subject well worthy of criticism. I recently attended an AEI event where JUSTICE Scalia did just that.

In fact, everytime we have a dissent in a Supreme Court decision, that means we have someone criticizing a Judicial decision.

Justice Ginsburg’s comments are also irresponsible in that she is criticizing a legislative function. Don’t know she thinks it’s appropriate to criticize Congress but not vice versa.

I’ve seen many a bumoer sticker with the pithy:

“Dissent is Patriotic”

…did I miss the asterisk that referred to “except for Supreme Court decisions the Left agrees with” ?