Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes to give speeches. Unlike Justice Antonin Scalia, whom the liberal press guns for every time he opens his mouth, liberal justices and lower federal court judges can orate off the bench, and even maintain active membership in special interest lobby groups – like the American Bar Association – with a decidedly left-wing agenda without a peep from the Associated Press and New York Times.
There is much hypocrisy in this double standard. Justice Ginsburg the lobbyist? Surely she was when she delivered a public speech in which she not only criticized the majority of her colleagues for having the temerity to disagree with her interpretation of Title VII’s filing deadlines but voiced a thinly disguised personal attack on her colleague Justice Samuel Alito. She suggested the Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire Co. rulingwould have been different had Justice O’Connor not retired.
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