Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘Can’t Imagine’ A Donald Trump Presidency

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets emotional as the citation for her Radcliffe Medal is read during a luncheon at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Friday, May 29, 2015, in Cambri... U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets emotional as the citation for her Radcliffe Medal is read during a luncheon at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Friday, May 29, 2015, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) MORE LESS
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t even want to think about a Donald Trump presidency.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” she told the New York Times in an interview published Sunday. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”

Ginsburg joked to the Times that her husband, who died in 2010, would have told her to be ready to move to New Zealand in case Trump won the election.

The Supreme Court justice also spoke to the Associated Press about the Republican presidential candidate in an interview published on Friday.

“I don’t want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs,” she said of a potential Trump presidency.

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  1. Yeah, let’s see Donald Trump with his Raisinette balls fuck with the Notorious RBG. Go ahead, Donald. Open your big fucking trap. Game on!

  2. Hey, after watching all of those “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” movies, that’s where I’d go. And it’s about as far away from Trump as you can get without nesting with a pack of penguins in Antarctica.

  3. She is lamenting the American people’s devolution to even consider a man like Trump for any elected office. She is lamenting the influence of FOX and Talk Radio
    She is lamenting the hack-job Newt Gingrich achieved when he altered Congress for the worse
    She is lamenting the Reagan Revolution

    And, for me, she is lamenting the truism of these words:

    –“Evil Triumphs When Good People Do Nothing”–

    Post Script:

    I was shown a video of teenagers speaking very intelligently and forthrightly about the menace of Trump. But half of me was asking: “HOW MANY OF THESE KIDS WILL VOTE?”

  4. A woman. With the last name “Ginsburg”. Criticizing Trump.

    The fact that the hundreds of images of RBG photoshopped into pictures of concentration camps is a no longer surprising response by Trump supporters is bigly sad.

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