Hey there,
The men of the Supreme Court of the United States -- including Trump loyalist appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh -- defended the president’s action to keep his tax returns hidden from Congress and the American people.
Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weren’t having it.
Kagan said, “[the] fundamental precept of our constitutional order is that the president is not above the law.” Sotomayor referred to the long history of other presidents turning their financial records over to Congress without delay, and Ginsburg compared Trump to Nixon covering up the Watergate break-in.
But Trump has made the women of the high court targets of his misogynist attacks in the past -- saying that RBG’s “mind is shot,” and that she “has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements.” But in light of the eloquence Justices Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor displayed yesterday, even as the minority on the bench, we’d like to know:
