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

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