Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she knew there was concern about President Bill Clinton nominating a 60-year-old to the Supreme Court when he picked her in 1993.
“Some people thought I was too old for the job,” Ginsburg said Wednesday night during a conversation with Clinton and Hillary Clinton at Georgetown Law Center in Washington. She paused a beat.
“If you worried about my age, it was unnecessary,” she said.
Ginsburg is now 86 and entering her 27th year on the court. She and the Clintons reminisced about the old days at an annual lecture named for her.
Bill Clinton repeated that he knew within 10 minutes of interviewing then-Judge Ginsburg that he would offer her the job, although his first choice was New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
He said she was serious about judging and laid out her views clearly. “I thought, this woman is completely on the level,” Clinton said.
Later, it was conceded that the serious Ginsburg also has a sense of humor. “It’s essential to the job,” she said.
Ginsburg says she is ‘on my way to being very well’ after cancer treatment
Hillary Clinton said she liked to think she had something to do with Ginsburg’s nomination as well. “I may have expressed an opinion or two about people he should move up” the list of possibilities, she said.
I wonder how many kids will dress up as RBG for Halloween today. Hope you have a fun night.
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I am getting weary of deifying these judges. It is sticking that as you enter the Court, you are bombarded with the various justices swag and books in the gift shop. Same culture that brought us djt.
8:08 Grandpa?! You know you aren't supposed to be on line without your meds.
Seriously I love my Alito toilet paper.
Diaz-Balart votes against even an inquiry. What a disgrace.
Gee: I really like Justice Ginsburg, although I do not agree with much of what she writes. But, isn't there something a little "partisan" about her sitting and reminiscing with possible targets of a criminal investigation?
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In case your haven't heard the inquiry already commenced before the vote. The actual vote was about the rules of the inquiry going forward. Maybe he didnt think that dems having veto power to kill minority subpoenas was fair. Maybe he thought mandatory disclosure of the full transcripts would have been a good rule. Who knows. But the inquiry itself was announced by the speaker and a fed judge has already found the existing proceedings already constitute a legal impeachment inquiry.
Sitting down with bill the guy that lied under oath in what should have been the first #metoo civil lawsuit.
Yep
Imagine if kavanaugh sat down with trump and Melania LOL
I don't think Melania would be in a room with two predators like trump and kavanaugh without bear spray and a taser,
The police were called in my neighborhood when someone with a Bill Barr mask was walking down the street and people were fleeing from him screaming at the top of their lungs.
Trump moving to Florida - didn't we stop accepting garbage barges from there years ago?
When is Melania released from her pre-nup?
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