Supreme Court

The 'Notorious RBG' Myth Shattered By Kaepernick Comments

Justice Ginsburg may be a liberal icon... she's just not all they make her out to be.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ginsburg is not at all plugged in to the modern racial-equality movement the way Sotomayor obviously is. Ginsburg’s social and professional cohort is largely limited to an elite circle of friends in the arts, the law, and academia. She is not a rabble-rouser and probably does not know any rabble-rousers, Sotomayor excluded. Her burgeoning reputation as a boat-rocker or even an iconoclast is exaggerated.

— Mark Joseph Stern in a spot-on deconstruction of the Notorious RBG mythology. The justice’s recent comments on 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest of police brutality drive home the experiential gulf between Ginsburg and the modern progressives who herald her.

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