Justice Ginsburg and the talking yam

Maybe the Notorious RBG did speak out of turn when she expressed her opinion of Donald Trump, but it seems to me Justices get to have opinions just like the rest of us.

I used to agree with Glenn Greenwald a lot more than I have in the last few years, but when he says this it’s really easy to concur:

We watched an election recount be stopped in 2000 and the Presidency handed to a member of the same party as that of the majority of the Court, who then said “this decision is a one-off and shouldn’t be used as precedent for anything, you lower courts.” They obviously knew there was little merit to their argument that the recount should end, but they did it anyway.

People howling that Justice Ginsburg “crossed a line” by expressing an opinion should take note that unlike in Bush v. Gore she was speaking in a one-on-one interview, not in a majority opinion or dissent in a case before the Court.