Ginsburg Says SCOTUS Has ‘Blind Spot’
The Supreme Court’s first hip-hop artist, Notorious R.G.B., a.k.a. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, told Katie Couric more about her 35-page dissent in the Hobby Lobby ruling. “I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners,” Ginsburg told Couric. “On the other hand,” she doesn’t, adding, “[T]hey have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women” who work there. Religious liberty predates and supersedes any “right” to sex without consequences courtesy of free contraceptives (i.e., paid for by someone else). Perhaps Ginsburg’s most revealing remark, however, was this: “I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.” By “blind spot,” it seems Ginsburg believes the five male justices in the majority are incapable of seeing how important contraception is to women. But she’s merely trying to perpetuate the myth of the “war on women,” and it’s shameful a justice would so politicize a ruling. More…