Revelations that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is co-sponsored on the lecture circuit by an arm of the abortion-friendly National Organization for Women is raising eyebrows — but not to any great extent in the mainstream media.
The light reporting done on the cozy relationship between Ginsburg and NOW is in stark contrast to the heated media criticism of Justice Antonin Scalia over his recent duck-hunting trip with Vice President Dick Cheney.
But what Ginsburg has done smacks much more of impropriety. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture Series on Women and the Law is actually co-sponsored by NOW’s Legal Defense and Education Fund.
There’s no excuse for Ginsburg playing a promotional role for the NOW Legal Defense Fund, which has a point of view on abortion that’s going to come before the court. That association is inappropriate.
The same questions of propriety can’t be raised over the Scalia-Cheney duck hunt. There was no allegation that there was any business discussed. There was no allegation of anything else that’s improper. And yet, the media have excoriated Scalia, not Ginsburg.
Please help correct this kind of unfair double standard.
