Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Denounces Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings as "Highly Partisan Event"

In 1993, she conquered almost all Republican senators despite her progressive work with the American Civil Liberties Union. Former President Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in June and, two months later, she was confirmed by 96 votes to 3.

By contrast, Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings were controversial and took place in a political debate, with Kavanaugh representing Trump's second Supreme Court candidate after the Republican Senate prevented former President Barack Obama from appointing Merrick Garland.

The Democrats rejected Kavanaugh, as his appointment could move the Supreme Court to a clear conservative majority for a generation. They also expressed concern that Kavanaugh would fail to hold the president responsible for the investigation of Russia if legal repercussions came to the Supreme Court. With the majority of Americans, Democrats also fear Roe v. Wade could be overthrown with Kavanaugh sitting on the country's highest court.

In a confrontation, the third day of confirmation hearings of Kavanaugh, Sens. Cory Booker (DN.J.) and Mazie Hirono (DH.I.) published confidential e-mails from the time of the judge at George W. Bush's White House. Kavanaugh's opinions on affirmative action, abortion, the rights of indigenous peoples and the right to vote. The documents had been allowed to be made public a few hours earlier. If they had not done so, Booker and Hirono might have risked being expelled from the Senate.

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"I wish I could wield a magic wand and bring it back," Ginsburg said of the confirmation process. She also highlighted the confirmation by the Senate of Conservative Judge Antonin Scalia in 1986 as an example of the "truly bipartisan" nature of the Supreme Court hearings. "Think of Justice Scalia, who is certainly a known character," said Ginsburg. "The vote was unanimous."

"That's the way it should be," she added, "instead of what it has become, which is a highly partisan show, Republicans are moving at the same pace, just like the Democrats."

In conversation with George Washington with Goodwin H. Liu, a former clerk in the Ginsburg office, who now sits on the California Supreme Court, justice also spoke about gender disparity in the Supreme Court and in the judicial system . When Liu asked Ginsburg if she thought that the United States would see a gender-equal Supreme Court, Ginsburg responded that in her view there would be enough female Supreme Court justices "when there will be nine, of course. "

Ginsburg, who is even eighty, is famous for his intense training program, also revealed that there are only two Supreme Court candidates who could do more than him: "Maybe Judge Neil Gorsuch" work every day and is almost 35 years old his junior, she said. Chief Justice John Roberts is another "possibility".