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.
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"It sounds to me very much like the Soviet Union was …. That's a really scary idea," said Ginsburg
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