Breaking: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Apologizes for ‘Ill-Advised’ Comments on Donald Trump

Supreme Court Justice Says She Regrets Comments

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just apologized for comments she made about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. The 83-year old de facto head of the progressive wing of the Supreme Court calls her remarks in interviews with The New York Times and CNN “ill-advised,” and says she regrets making them. 

“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect,” Ginsburg said, according to Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes.

Trump had responded to Ginsburg’s comments with tweets like this:

Ginsburg had called Trump a “faker,” and commenting on a Trump presidency invoked something her late husband said: “Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand.” 

She also had said, “I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” to The New York Times in an interview published Sunday. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”

 

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