After ‘The Whirlwind,’ GOP Places Would-Be SCOTUS Assassin at Dems’ Feet

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She disagreed vehemently, never personally. And that, explained Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was key.

“Collegiality is very important in the workplace,” the Supreme Court justice said during a 2019 visit to the University of Chicago, just a little more than a year before her death. “We couldn’t do the job the Constitution assigns to us” she explained, “unless we worked well together.”

For Ginsburg, this meant disagreements in chambers, and then deep friendships outside of them. She didn’t share the jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia, for instance, but the two late justices shared meals, a love of opera, and even vacations. (In the South of France, the elderly conservative jurist reportedly watched the daring elderly liberal jurist go parasailing.)

Three years later, that all sounds ancient and, if not for witnesses, might sound entirely apocryphal. Distrust and turmoil describe today’s Supreme Court, not friendship, after a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press. That, and fear for their lives. An assassin was arrested Wednesday after an aborted attempt to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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