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A supreme court justice was asked the same question. I don't agree with it completely but think it's an interesting opinion. >Rosen: Why is it good for men—as
by kelukelugames 9y ago
A supreme court justice was asked the same question. I don't agree with it completely but think it's an interesting opinion.
>Rosen: Why is it good for men—as you said recently, there should be nine women on the Supreme Court …
>Ginsburg: No, I didn’t say there should be. The question was when will there be enough, so there’ll be enough when there are nine.
>For most of our history, except the times the court was less than nine, and the one time there were 10, they were, until Justice O’Connor, all men. And nobody thought anything was unusual about that.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/ruth-bader-ginsburg-opens-up-about-metoo-voting-rights-and-millenials/553409/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/ruth-ba...
- humanrebar 9y agoThe logic there is just terrible. Maybe her point was that even if eight women were sitting, we'd still be considering women candidates for the open seat? If so, it didn't come across in the text.
- akvadrako 9y agoThe way court transcripts read it often doesn't come across as very natural.
- DoofusOfDeath 9y agoPerhaps Ginsburg's point was that 9 is definitely enough, but she's addressing what the smallest number for "enough" is?