Bulldozing Religious Freedom with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
July 4, 2019, 12:01 AM
by Jed Babbin
As an exercise in self-immolation this July 4th fireworks season, I read Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion in the Bladensburg cross case. It’s a flaming attack upon religious freedom — the first freedom in our Bill of Rights. At the least, it’s a smashing example of a Supreme Court justice endorsing the destruction of religious symbols on public property. Or at least where large Christian crosses are concerned.
The Ginsburg opinion, supported by a demolition crew of one — namely, Justice Sonia Sotomayor — is not only a crushing indictment of judicial acumen but also of our process of judicial appointments. Someone of such obviously partial and superficial mind should never have been nominated to the high court (by President Bill Clinton), let alone approved by a Senate vote of 96 to 3. Not even court liberals like Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan deigned to agree with Ginsburg on this one. And yet, it’s such unhinged radical-left activism that endears Ginsburg to progressives. For anti-religious progressives, Bladensburg will be another brick in the large monument they’ll be erecting to their “Notorious R.B.G.†(surely on public property and with government dollars).
https://spectator.org/bulldozing-religious-freedom-with-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
