Monday, February 6, 2012

Justice Ginsburg Advises Egypt to Look to South African, not U.S., Constitution as a Model

Breathtaking

http://www.fedsocblog.com/blog/justice_ginsburg_advises_egypt_to_look_to_south_african_not_u.s._const/

Even if the SA constitution didn't include some really abhorrent stuff, for a sitting Justice to make such comments borders on treason.

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5 comments:

  1. J TFebruary 6, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    can she not be impeached for making such a comment?

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  2. Random ByteFebruary 6, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    the problem with the left way of thinking is that the constitution lives. only in their minds.

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  3. John McDonoughFebruary 6, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    Of course not.

    The one omission in our system of checks and balances is that there is no check on the court.

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  4. J TFebruary 6, 2012 at 7:16 PM

    yes they can be impeached just as a trial that is presided by the senate after the house takes a vote to impeach the supreme court justice or any other appointed judge to a federal judgeship, I did remember that being part of my thesis as to why the constitution is unique in how it was written. The people can demand and have a judge removed...........and ginsburg statements were treason in nature..........

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  5. GOOD STUFFFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:13 PM


    I am not here to flame ... Seems to me that she was just giving some advise on how to write a modern constitution 
    I don't see a case for treasonShe has not violated her oathShe was not criticizing the Constitution
    It truly would have been extraordinary for her to suggest that document that is almost 225 years old should be the model for Egypt. Surely something has been learned in those years that might be an improvement for them.
    “I can’t speak as to what the Egyptian experience should be” she said, “because I am operating under a rather old Constitution, the United States in comparison to Egypt is a very new nation, yet we have the oldest Constitution still in force in the world…”
    "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution writing that has gone on since the end of World War II," Ginsburg said in an 18-minute interview with Al Hayat TV posted online by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Wednesday. 
    America’s judicial representative counseled the Egyptian people that “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
    “Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?” encouraged Ginsburg to her Egyptian audience.

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