{"id":1213,"date":"2020-02-26T00:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:24:13","slug":"justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-trump-should-recuse-himself-from-decisions-involving-countrys-futur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Trump should recuse himself from decisions involving Country&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eb6cda200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth bader 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eb6cda200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eb6cda200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Ruth bader 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This from The Borowitz Report in the New Yorker &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-trump-should-recuse-himself-from-all-decisions-involving-the-future-of-the-country?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Borowitz_ZZ&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_022520&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5c2bb7480564ce2da7265fc4&amp;cndid=55812185&amp;esrc=bounceX&amp;mbid=&amp;utm_term=TNY_Borowitz\">Ginsburg enumerated a list of issues about which Trump should immediately recuse himself, including immigration, taxes, women\u2019s reproductive rights, \u201cand any other issues related to domestic or foreign policy not listed above.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaking from her office at the Supreme Court, Ginsburg said that Trump\u2019s oft-stated allegiance to himself makes it impossible for him to render unbiased decisions on issues affecting people other than himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cSince the United States is populated by three hundred and thirty-one million people who are not him, any decision regarding their fates would, by definition, ensnare Trump in an insoluble conflict of interest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ginsburg enumerated a list of issues about which Trump should immediately recuse himself, including immigration, trade, taxes, the social safety net, women\u2019s reproductive rights, health care, the economy, the military, the environment, \u201cand any other issues related to domestic or foreign policy not listed above.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ginsburg stressed, however, that, even after recusing himself from those matters, Trump would still be allowed to weigh in on other important decisions, like \u201cwhat to eat and which channel to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from The Borowitz Report in the New Yorker &#8211; Ginsburg enumerated a list of issues about which Trump should immediately recuse himself, including immigration, taxes, women\u2019s reproductive rights, \u201cand any other issues related to domestic or foreign policy not listed above.\u201d Speaking from her office at the Supreme Court, Ginsburg said that Trump\u2019s oft-stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}