Rove loves Ginsburg now?

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Rove loves Ginsburg now?

GOP is using the liberal justice's words to justify its anti-LGBT agenda. Here are two reasons they have it wrong

BY IRIN CARMON

Conservatives may have fallen out of love with Chief Justice John Roberts, but they’ve also found an unlikely new hero: the Supreme Court’s most liberal justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That is, at least as far as they believe she provides cover for their argument against the Court recognizing marriage equality.

There were Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan on “This Week” on Sunday, gleefully seizing on Ginsburg’s prior statements about Roe to make an argument against Supreme Court recognition of minority rights in general. “Americans don’t take it well and don’t accept it as a resolution when their black-robed masters in Washington decide to put on them what they decide is the right thing,” said Noonan. “One of the great sins of Roe versus Wade, the abortion decision of 40 years ago, was that it decided everyone has to do it one way, instead of leaving it to the states. May I note, by the way, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a famous court liberal, her acknowledging very recently was in I think the Times today, that the Rove versus Wade decision, the abortion decision, had gone too far and was an overreach. That is an epic statement from an American liberal left jurist.”

Rove chimed in too. “I’m interested in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” he said. “She has had comments in the past about Roe v. Wade, which Peggy mentioned.” Host George Stephanopoulos supplied the answer: “Went too far, too fast.” Said Noonan, “We overdid, yes.”

Rove and Noonan aren’t alone. As is pointed out in the Times piece this weekend that Noonan was referring to (which included only past statements from Ginsburg), “Briefs from opponents of same-sex marriage, including one from 17 states, are studded with references to the aftermath of the abortion decision and to Justice Ginsburg’s critiques of it.” Even District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, who in the oral arguments on California’s Proposition 8 asked Ted Olson, the counsel opposing it, “Isn’t the danger not that you are going to lose this case, either here or at the Court of Appeals or at the Supreme Court, but that you might win it?”

full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/25/rove_loves_ginsberg_now/