Ruth Bader Ginsburg Apologizes For Negative Comments About Trump

Justice Ginsburg said she regretted her remarks and they were “ill-advised”.

Promising to be more discreet in the future, the leader of the court’s liberal wing said in a statement that judges should not comment on candidates for any public office.

Trump said on “The Herman Cain Show” that he found Ginsburg’s criticisms of his campaign “disappointing”, according to a report from The Hill.

In fact, Ginsburg’s attacks on Trump were not just “ill-advised”, as she put it, they were flatly inconsistent with Canon 5. “For the country, it could be four years”.

She took heat for the remarks from some supporters who believe members of the high court should not comment on politics.

The Supreme Court’s claim to impartiality has suffered ever since the justices split along political and ideological lines in handing the presidency to George W. Bush in December 2000. “I think I made a friend”. “For the court, it could be – I don’t even want to contemplate that”.

Trump has yet to react to Ginsburg’s public apology. Fifty-one percent said no to this question: “Are Ginsburg’s #Trump comments out of bounds for a #SCOTUS justice?”

Last week Ginsburg said Trump was a “faker” with an out-of-control ego.

In a CNN interview posted on Tuesday, Ginsburg called the presumptive Republican nominee “a faker“.

At this point, Ginsburg triggered not only the ire of Trump, and of fellow Republicans who have been making the Supreme Court a central theme of the 2016 election, but of Democrats and legal scholars, as well.

Justice Stephen Breyer was asked about her comments Wednesday and according to the event organizers at the Sun Valley Writer’s Conference he declined to comment saying, “If I had an opinion, I wouldn’t express it”. She, for instance, provides copies of remarks she makes from the bench and has in the past disclosed details about medical events.

Former President Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg to the Court in 1993.