Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Trump: ‘We Are Not Experiencing The Best Of Times’
On Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a BBC interview suggested she doesn’t think that country is in the best of hands with Trump in charge.
“We’re not experiencing the best of times,” Ginsburg said.
The Supreme Court Justice said that last month’s Women’s March gave her, “reason to hope that we will see a better day.”
Ginsburg also said, “A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle; it is the pendulum, and when the pendulum swings too far in one direction, it will go back.”
“Some terrible things have happened in the United States, but one can only hope that we learn from those bad things,” Ginsburg added, referencing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Later in the interview Ginsburg said, “What is important is that we have a free press, which many countries don’t have.”
“Think of what the press has done in the United States.”
And about the potential consequences for the Supreme Court, “For the country, it could be four years,” she said. “For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
