Alternate headline: "Don't try to tell this granny how to suck eggs" (via Newsmax Insider):
A source close to the Supreme Court tells Newsmax that White House efforts to get Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step down from the Supreme Court backfired while infuriating the liberal justice.
To say that Ginsburg was unhappy about the call to resign would be a gross understatement.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Ginsburg, at 81 the oldest member of the court, was "under strong pressure to retire" and "questioning why some liberals want her to leave."
Well, gee, let me see; Eric "The Red" Holder is leaving his post as Barack Obama's Reichsfuhrer and hasn't mentioned any desire to "spend more time with his family," so I'm going to take a wild guess and speculate that The One wanted to stick Justice Ginsburg in an old folks home somewhere and free up that SCOTUS slot for his main man while there was still a Democrat Senate to ram Holder's High Court nomination through confirmation. And, of course, there's also the matter of Justice Ginsburg being older than the hills on, well, her own chest, and just in case O can't, for whatever reason, overstay his second term, and she lingers past that point, her eventual replacement might be made by, say, President Scott Walker. If he can't tip Olympus leftward, King Hussein wants to at least replace the anti-constitutionalist side with fresh blood while he still can.
This is, apparently, Justice Ginsburg's reward for not having croaked yet.
But even though she frequently dozes off during High Court testimony....
....she's still sufficiently in possession of her mental faculties that her aforequoted "questioning" is purely rhetorical:
But the close source told Newsmax that Ginsburg directly blames President Barack Obama rather than "liberals" and her comments were aimed squarely at the White House....
Ginsburg said in a recent interview with the New Republic: "I asked some people, particularly the academics who said I should have stepped down last year: 'Who do you think the president could nominate and get through the current Senate that you would rather see on the court than me? No one has given me an answer to that question. "As long as I can do the job, I will stay here," she said defiantly.
Hell hath no fury like an old Marxist crone scorned.
It might, at this juncture, be a useful reminder that the Constitution empowers the President of the United States to, with the advice and consent of the Senate (i.e. the States, pre-17th Amendment), appoint Justices to the Supreme Court. However, nowhere in Article II is the POTUS given the authority to fire Justices of the Supreme Court - or "strongly pressure them to retire," either. But we should all know by now how much reverence and fealty Barack Obama has for and to the United States Constitution - which is to say, none whatsoever. Just as he endlessly eviscerates Article I, Section 1 to illegally decree what he wants legislatively ("If Congress won't act, I will!") and believes that Senators and Representatives are supposed to be working for him, so he considers federal judges and even Supreme Court Justices his subordinates as well. An attitude of, well, supreme imperial arrogance that helps explain a great many things:
Even with Ginsburg on the job, the Obama administration has had a rocky relationship with the Supreme Court.
The court historically has sided with the White House in a significant majority of cases it has heard. But the Obama administration has a losing record before the court, and has lost an unusually high number of cases in unanimous 9-0 decisions. Obama saw twenty unanimous defeats in the first 5 1/2 years of his administration, while his predecessor George W. Bush saw just fifteen in his eight years in office.
The court recently dealt a potential blow to Obama's signature effort, the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act, when it decided to hear a case challenging provisions of ObamaCare.
The bottom line, according to the source, is that the court just does not like the Obama administration and its continual disrespect of co-equal [sic] branches of the federal government.
Which puts the nine denizens of Olympus in the company of most of the rest of the American population.
Or, as another high-ranking woman will say 356 years from now....
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