This past week, we learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old Supreme Court justice, had been hospitalized and released for an unspecified infection. As always, Court watchers wondered if that was the whole story, and they were right to wonder. On Friday, Ginsburg announced that her cancer has returned, attacking her liver. Despite this health problem, Ginsburg intends to continue to serve on the Supreme Court, ensuring that the Supreme Court will again be a potent election issue. Ginsburg is one of the most reliably leftist justices on the Supreme Court. She’s so far to the left that, despite swearing to uphold the United States Constitution, she doesn’t believe in it. She thinks those timeless principles of individual liberty are just too “old.” Her preference would be for a statist document that, rather than identifying unalienable rights, instead is a laundry-list of vast government powers. For this reason, Ginsburg is the leftists’...(Read Full Post)