Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was NOT Liberal!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed liberal on social issues like abortion and gay marriage. But she really wasn't that liberal. Actually like Harry Blackmun, she voted with conservatives in cases involving the rights of criminals and the accused. Often siding with the police and prosecutor instead of the common man. Like in this famous case:

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In the City of Detroit v. Boyd case, which involved the forfeiture of a car used in prostitution activities, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted to uphold the forfeiture. The Court's 5-4 decision, in which Ginsburg concurred, rejected the argument that the wife, as an innocent owner, should not have her car forfeited. The majority opinion in the case was written by Justice Blackmun, and the dissent was written by Justice O'Connor.

 

That case means nothing. As a grad of the same high school, none of us are conservative, right Bernie? Right Chuck? Hard to find more liberal people anywhere. Like this site.

RBG was old and frail. Who gives THAT big a fuck about a car that it had to go to the Supremes? Obviously a cultural wedge issue for the Repugnants.

 

Ok, here's how I figure that case....
Some rich dude faces a SIMILAR situation, he's got rich off some racket and is probably under investigation, he wants to hide, or already hid his ill gotten gains with wifey. He wants the supremes to rule she can keep them. So this was a test case for his property.

He has some ambitious, conservative lawyer, a buddy he put in office with his cash. He calls in a favor, guy gets to push case to Supremes.

Glad he lost. Sandra Day O'Connor was a big asshole.

That is how the system works, folks. Sad.

 

Thank you Toker for your replies.

But, I don't know if I've made this clear. But Rehnquist conservatives were even more conservative than judges like Chief Justice Burger. Burger, the guy who thought gays should be executed. That's why they called William Rehnquist the lone dissenter.

But on the other hand judges like Sandra Day O'Connor granted equal protection to gays in cases like Obergefell because that's what the Constitution says. No State shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. And she upheld Roe because she knew that's what a good judge does. Upholds well-established precedent. That's call judicial restraint.

I'm sorry if some of you conservatives have a problem with both of those.