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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