Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I'm Not Going Anywhere

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dismissed any idea that she might step down from the bench anytime soon in an interview with Yahoo News published Thursday.

"All I can say is that I am still here and likely to remain for a while," Ginsburg said, responding to liberals who are urging her to retire so Obama can fill her spot with another like-minded justice.

Yahoo reports the 81-year-old Ginsburg said she looks to former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who retired at 83, as an example of why she should stay.

"I expect to stay at least that long," Ginsburg said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/ruth-bader-ginsburg-retirement_n_5637314.html


videos of interview
The second one is about her retirement
http://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-interviews-ruth-bader-ginsburg-185027624.html

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 5 Male Justices Have A 'Blind Spot' On Women's Issues
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/ginsburg-hobby-lobby_n_5636254.html

The five conservative justices last month ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., that closely held for-profit corporations can refuse for religious reasons to cover contraception in their health insurance plans. Ginsburg, the two other women on the court and Justice Stephen Breyer dissented with the majority opinion, arguing that allowing some employers to choose what kinds of health coverage their women employees receive is a form of discrimination.

Asked by Katie Couric whether the five male justices fully understood the ramifications of their decision, Ginsburg replied, "I would have to say no."

"It's a little bit like the Pregnancy Discrimination Act -- not getting a simple point," Ginsburg said, referring to a 2009 decision in which the majority ruled that women cannot receive retirement credit for maternity leave taken before the law was passed in 1978. "But justices continue to think and can change."

Ginsburg added that all the justices "have wives. They have daughters. By the way, I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers."

[Laelth]

1. I criticize President Clinton for many things.

But I thank him, wholeheartedly, for Justice Ginsburg. I'd love to see her on the bench for another 20 years.

-Laelth

[NOVA_Dem]

2. I support term limits for SC justices.

She's gambling that the next president will be Hillary. I'm not willing to bet a 6-3 conservative majority for the next 20 yrs on it.

[frylock]

3. yeah, this comes across as short-sighted and selfish to me..

she should be proud of her tenure, and give someone else an opportunity.

[NOVA_Dem]

4. Exactly.

What was the average life expectancy when life long tenure was written into the Constitution?

[SylviaD]

5. EXTREMELY disappointed in RBG. Short-sighted and reckless on her part. n/t

[hifiguy]

6. I have all the respect in the world for Justice Ginsburg

but if she serves into the term of the next president before stepping down and somehow that pretzeldent turns out to be a repuke, she will be replaced by a raging lunatic. That would not be a good thing for the country.

[SylviaD]

7. Can you imagine the nominee that party would put forward! n/t

[hifiguy]

8. It would doubtless be someone well to the right

of Tomas Torquemada. Someone who would make Fat Tony Scalia look like William Brennan.