Justice Ginsburg Criticizes GOP Court “Watchdog” Legislation

Brian Zick

Gina Holland for AP reports Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a "really scary idea." "My sense now is that the judiciary is under assault in a way that I haven't seen before," she said. … "It sounds to me very much like the Soviet Union was …. That's a really scary idea," said Ginsburg via AMERICAblog

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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