Obama re: Ginsburg: "Life tenure means she gets to decide, not anybody else, when she chooses to go"
Ginsburg, 81, told Elle last month, "If I resign any time this year, (Obama) could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court."
In an article for The New Yorker's Oct. 27 issue, Jeffrey Toobin asked Obama about Ginsburg's statement.
"Well, we've got a pretty good track record," Obama said. "We've got a couple of Supreme Court Justices confirmed who I think are doing outstanding work. My sense is that the Senate necessarily has to treat the Supreme Court nomination process differently than the circuit- or district-court nomination process -- higher profile, people are paying attention."
Some of the "shenanigans" that occur during the confirmation process for lower-court judges are absent with Supreme Court nominations because of the increased media coverage of the process, he said.
"Having said that, Justice Ginsburg is doing a wonderful job. She is one of my favorite people," he added. "Life tenure means she gets to decide, not anybody else, when she chooses to go."
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