Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday lamented that the current Congress is dysfunctional.
During an interview with MSNBC set to air Monday night, Ginsburg discussed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which Congress passed in 2009 after the Supreme Court ruled that individuals could not sue their employers for discrimination over a decision made 180 days beforehand.
Ginsburg said that at the time, Congress was able to act where the Supreme Court did not. But she said that’s not possible anymore.
“The current Congress is not equipped really to do anything,” she said. “The kind of result that we got in the Ledbetter case is not easily achieved today. Someday, we will go back to having the kind of legislature that we should, where members, whatever party they belong to, want to make the thing work and cooperate with each other to see that that will happen.”
The Supreme Court justice also discussed Roe v. Wade, which she believes will not be overturned. She said that while some states’ have limited access to abortion for low income women, she doesn’t think abortion will be outlawed entirely ever again.
“We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country,” Ginsburg said.
