Offended Trump demands Supreme Court judge step down

Donald Trump called Wednesday for the resignation
of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
charging that the 83-year-old judge's "mind is
shot" after she branded him a faker


It is exceptional for a US Supreme Court justice to
speak openly about politics and their political
preferences.
But Ginsburg dropped all pretenses of reserve in
two interviews she gave recently and which have
caused a sensation.
"He is a faker," Ginsburg said Monday of the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee in an
interview with CNN.
"He has no consistency about him. He says
whatever comes into his head at the moment," said
the Brooklyn-born justice, a diminutive but tough-
as-nails figure who has earned the nickname
"Notorious RBG."
"He really has an ego," she said.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee, hit back Wednesday at the leader of the
court's progressive wing, suggesting she is getting
senile.
"Justice Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court has
embarrassed all by making very dumb political
statements about me. Her mind is shot - resign!"
Trump wrote on Twitter.
The Supreme Court normally has nine justices but
has been one short since the conservative Antonin
Scalia died in February. There is an even tie
between conservatives and liberals, who include
Ginsburg.
Worried that a court dominated by conservatives
could now tip in the liberals' favor, President
Barack Obama's Republican foes in the Senate have
refused to vote on his nominee to replace Scalia,
Merrick Garland.
They insist the decision must wait until after voters
choose Obama's successor in November.
Ginsburg told The New York Times in an interview
published Sunday that the stakes in the 2016
election were positively huge.
"I can't imagine what this place would be I can't
imagine what the country would be -- with Donald
Trump as our president," she said.
"For the country, it could be four years. For the
court, it could be I don't even want to
contemplate that," said the judge.