{"id":1713,"date":"2006-03-18T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ginsburg-faults-gop-critics-cites-a-threat-from-fringe\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T23:17:12","slug":"ginsburg-faults-gop-critics-cites-a-threat-from-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ginsburg-faults-gop-critics-cites-a-threat-from-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginsburg Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat From Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/16\/AR2006031601860.html?referrer=email\">Ginsburg Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat From &#8216;Fringe&#8217;<\/a> By Charles Lane, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg assailed the court&#8217;s congressional critics in a recent speech overseas, saying their efforts &#8220;fuel&#8221; an &#8220;irrational fringe&#8221; that threatened her life and that of a colleague, former justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[A Feb. 28, 2005, chatroom] posting said: &#8220;Okay, commandoes, here is your first patriotic assignment . . . an easy one. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and O&#8217;Connor have publicly stated that they use [foreign] laws and rulings to decide how to rule on American cases. This is a huge threat to our Republic and Constitutional freedom. . . . <strong>If you are what you say you are, and NOT armchair patriots, then these two justices will not live another week.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ginsburg Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat From &#8216;Fringe&#8217; By Charles Lane, Washington Post Staff Writer Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg assailed the court&#8217;s congressional critics in a recent speech overseas, saying their efforts &#8220;fuel&#8221; an &#8220;irrational fringe&#8221; that threatened her life and that of a colleague, former justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor. &#8230; [A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ginsburg-faults-gop-critics-cites-a-threat-from-fringe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ginsburg Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat From Fringe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}