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Thursday, September 24, 2020

It's pretty bad when even Ginsburg disagreed with your leftist stance

As America continues to reflect on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it is notable to remember that she was not a supporter of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protests during the national anthem. 

In 2016, when the former San Francisco 49ers second-string quarterback first began taking a knee in protest against the country during the playing of the national anthem, Ginsburg said that she felt the player’s protest was “dumb.” 
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  1. ElmoSeptember 24, 2020 at 5:44 PM

    Did you see the photos of all 150 of RBG's law clerks on the steps of the SCOTUS building? I looked hard and if there were any people of color in the bunch I couldn't spot any.

    Like Rush said today, as former general council of the ACLU she should have sued herself for discrimination.

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2020 at 9:19 PM

      I believe she was quoted as saying that "reproductive rights" needed to be defended so that "the wrong people" didn't breed.

      Kind of doubling down on Margaret Sanger vision of an abortion clinics keeping the black population down.

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    2. BerglanderSeptember 24, 2020 at 11:02 PM

      She had 119 law clerks.
      62 of them are Jewish like her, but certainly that’s merely a coincidence.

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    3. Mike_CSeptember 25, 2020 at 8:44 AM

      It's actually quantifiable, with the following assumptions:
      1. The probability of a clerkship being filled with a person of group X is the percentage of X in the overall population. (All groups have an equal chance.)
      2. The percentage of Jews in the US population is 2.8% (we are going to assume a constant percentage across RBG's tenure).
      3. I'm just going with the numbers from Berglander (119,62) and have not checked that myself.

      The "^" symbol indicates exponentiation.

      Then the odds of 62/119 are (0.028)^62 x (0.972)^(119-62) x (119-choose-62).
      The A-choose-B thing means the combinatoral calculation (out of A persons, choose B butts to fill B chairs; the order in which the chairs are arranged is irrelevant).

      So that equation above works out to (5.294x10^-97)x(0.19814)x(4.371x10^34)
      = 4.584x10^-63. For comparison, one billionth is 10^-9.

      But of course the distribution of lawyers by ethnic group does not match the population prevalences. And the distribution of lawyers who are really smart is even more mismatched. So the above calculation is just minor mental masturbation.

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  2. pbfurnSeptember 24, 2020 at 5:56 PM

    Positive proof that no one is completely without some merit. Though many people make it difficult to uncover their few merits.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2020 at 10:16 PM

    It is often rumored that she and Scalia were good friends, at least at work. If true, that makes one wonder. It's too bad he got the pillow treatment and she did not. I really doubt Clarence Thomas will be taking a "hunting" vacation to Texas any time soon. Maybe Schiff, Chuckie, Nadler, and some of the other wusses could be convinced to take up hunting-Texas style.

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  4. Fa Cube ItchesSeptember 25, 2020 at 5:04 AM

    Like many "conservative" justices, I'm sure her position had "evolved" since 2016.

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