On Wednesday, Fox News’s Andrew Napolitano said that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s critical comments about Donald Trump “damages the reputation” of the court.
Appearing on Fox News’s “Your World” with guest host Sandra Smith, Napolitano said, “She damages the reputation of the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land, when she speaks as if she’s a member of one of the other two branches, Congress or the executive branch. The whole reason we expect the court is because it stays out of politics, it is not majoritarian, it doesn’t do what it thinks the majority wants, it interprets the Constitution and and sometimes frustrates the majority.” (RELATED: Trump: Justice Ginsburg’s Comments About Me Are A ‘Disgrace To The Court’)
Napolitano went on to say that there’s nothing that legally prevents Ginsberg from commenting about Trump adding, “I know she’ll be able to serve. There is no way to dislodge her from the court or any particular case unless she chooses to take herself off the case.” (RELATED: Trump: Justice Ginsburg Needs To Resign)
According to Napolitano, when members of the Supreme Court “articulate” their opinions publicly, and it “informs their decisions on the court, we have less respect for the court. So it would be better for the court if they kept their politics to themselves, even though we know she has politics, she’s hard left and that’s her, and that’s the way she’s been all her life.” (RELATED: ‘Elderly And Drunken’ Ginsburg Doubles Down, Calls Trump ‘Faker’)
The Fox News judicial analyst then added that Ginsburg “has a lot of problems with the left, you know. The left has been trying to dislodge her for years because they rather she was replaced by somebody who is 44. She’s 84. She’s not going to go anywhere until God intercedes.”
“Can I tell you who is upset, her fellow liberals on the court who agree with her about Trump but have zipped their lips where as she hasn’t,” Napolitano said. “I can envision a lecture she got this afternoon from her colleague Justice Sotomayor.”
Over the past few days, Ginsburg has shared publicly her negative opinions of Trump. “I can’t imagine what this place would be, I can’t imagine what the country would be, with Donald Trump as our president. For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be, I don’t even want to contemplate that,” Ginsburg said. She even said that she would move to New Zealand if Trump won.