Announcer President Trump is in fayetteville, North Carolina holding a rally that Campaign Officials are calling a Great American comeback event because he carried the state in 2016. It should be noted that mailin balloting has begun in North Carolina. The president is making his fourth trip to the tar heel state in as many weeks. Vice President Joe Biden has released campaign ads directed at military service members. Washington journal viewers this morning reacted to the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We will show you some of that programming until the rally begins. We are doing the show today on the life and legacy of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg who died friday at the age of 87 at her home in washington, d. C. We want to know what you think about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and her life and legacy. We are opening regional lines, which means if youre the in the eastern or regional time zone, once again, we are dedicating the show to what you think about the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Lets go back to our phone lines and talk to bill. Good morning. Caller lets separate the personal from the political. Womanrse, i am sorry this has passed, and my condolences to the family. Her legacy belongs to his presidency. I think she did break ground as a woman, but lets compare her harris who is also breaking ground as a woman. I think she ended up on the wrong side of a lot of these decisions. Also, she stayed in her seat for 87 years. I think we should take care of after 40 joe biden years in the senate, not being able to let go of power. Still, we want to have the desire to serve, but we have to ask ourselves, are they fit to serve . Do we have a systemic problem where we let justices stay in their seat without any oversight or authority on their fitness, that itlly, i would say is sad to see someone pass, but we have to remind ourselves that jesus said i am the resurrection and the light, and he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live. Death is something that we have to look like through those vectors, so i believe that death is hard to endure, but it is the opening of another door. Host j. D. From cleveland, tennessee. Caller first of all, my condolences to the family. I am truly amazed at how the floodgates of partisanship have burst open rather than the floodgates of compassion. This woman has not been dead for more than 24 hours and we already have people from both sides or mostly republicans saying and making comments and judgments based upon their political views rather than, as a gentleman before me quoting the scriptures and not recognizing that his statements were not go along with tthe beliefs of christ himself. It blows my mind that we cannot take a moment of 48 hours the mourn this womans death before we talk about partisanship. Being a hypocrite when you say it is ok to replace someone now, but before when president obama was in, it was not ok to do it. It does not matter whether the senate is republican or democrat, it is one country. Host leigh from three oaks michigan, morning. Caller good morning. I have enjoyed listening to the program thus far, although it is sad and regrettable news. I too recently lost someone to a cancer battle, and my heart goes out to the other justices who might be affected by Justice Ginsburgs death. I wanted to say that i think it is wonderful that you have included footage of Justice Ginsburg talking about purpose and aptitude, and that she included and spoken away about community that involves including yourself. I think it might be possible that she also was referring to the Justice Community when she said do something for your community. Similar to the previous caller, i should say that those statements apply to anybody who is currently affected by political divide or of a minority status, and i would like to remember that Justice Ginsburg thought for minorities including women and children, and people affected by racial or political divide, and thank you for taking my call. Host keith from ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning. I just want to say, my condolences to Justice Ginsburgs family. You know, to me, i do not think it is right for any president , if they are human, they should wait until after the presidency nomination is filled. You know, because this should not even have anything to do with the presidency. It is not political, because of her passing. This is just wrong. Her passing, they are going to make it a political situation. And i do not think that her seat should have anything to do with the Political Part of it. Host let us talk a little bit about Justice Ginsburgs time on the court. During her tenure, Ruth Bader Ginsburg authored 232 opinions, 112 concurrences and 132 dissents during her time. She included 20 concurrences in part. Let us talk about a few of her high profile decisions. In 1996, in the United States versus virginia, she authored the 71 landmark ruling that ended the male only policy at Virginia Military institute. In 1999, in olmstead versus l. C. She made it unlawful to segregate people with disabilities and Mental Health issues to hospitals or institutional settings versus communitybased ones. The following year in the friends of the earth versus laidlaw environmental services, she wrote the 72 decision where she said that people can sue for pollution violations, even after the company has stopped polluting. Those are a few of the major decisions that were authored by Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg during her time on the Supreme Court. Now, Justice Ginsburg spoke at Stanford University in 2017 on the importance of civility. Heres what she said during that visit. [video clip] the opera about you and justice scalia, and that is part of the importance you give to collegiality, and you talk a lot about in the ways in which you and your colleagues in the court are very collegial, you shake hands and eat meals together. How do you think we can expand that to a broader civil and Public Discourse . When i was growing up, the first branch was very different than it is today. And that persisted, and i think back to 1993 when the president , clinton, nominated me with a good job i now hold. I had been general counsel to American Civil Liberties union for several years, the vote was 963 in my favor. My biggest supporter on the Judiciary Committee was not senator biden, although he was certainly in my favor, but it was orrin hatch. I think today he would not touch me with a 10 foot pole. [laughter] we are still friends, but if it came to a vote on me, i do not think he would be the supporter that he was in 1993. And it was similar with Steven Breyer when he was nominated next year. It was well into the 90s, the vote in his favor. It has not been that way for the four most recent members of the court. And on both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a way that i could wave a magic wand and put it back, when people were respectful of each other, and that congress was working for the good of the country, and not just along party lines. Someday, there will be great elected representatives who will say, enough of this nonsense, let us be the kind of legislature that the United States should have. I hope that day will come when i am still alive. [applause] [end video clip] host let us talk to grace calling from arkansas. Good morning. Caller yes, sir. My thing with Justice Ginsburg has that she has not been dead 24 hours and like the gentleman said i did not agree with his politics, but she was a wonderful human being first, let us respect that. She did a wonderful job before she was on the bench, let us respect that and give her respect as far as being a supreme justice. She did wonderful things for our country, being a human being. She did not vote for them, but wrote laws that she wanted passed because we were human beings first. We need to look at her and first putting a woman in her place, a strong woman. The first one that does not bring up and try to get laws passed that are politically based from either side. But, for the human race. As far as dignity, and respect, and humanity first. For the disabled, for our racial tensions in the nation, and for women. Host let us talk to michael from california. Michael, good morning. Caller yes. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was fantastic for womens rights, and she was also very religious. She was jewish, and i remember her talking one time that she really believed in proverb 6, 1619 that has to deal with division and hatred. And the lord does not really like evil eyes, lying tongue, and wicked plans, and the last one was division amongst the brethren in the community. And her lawsuits and other things that she fought for were to stop division in the community, and that is what the lord hates the most, the last one of the proverbs six, 1619. Host nate from maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. First and foremost, my condolences to the family. Rest in peace. I would just like to say to the american people, do not take your eyes off the narrative of covid19. Senator Mitch Mcconnell will not be able to push this nomination through before the election, so he may try it in a lameduck session. However, that will pose a problem because if you have a losing president , how will you put a nomination through . And that will not sit well with senators on the right. And then, the hypocrisy of Mitch Mcconnell as other callers have said that when president obama was president , he denied mary garland from going up to the Supreme Court, and less than 46 days before an election, again, i do not want to take away from Justice Ginsburgs legacy or her life because that is important. Again, may her soul rest in peace. Thank you. Host patricia from minneapolis, minnesota. Good morning. Caller good morning. I do not believe what her niece said that ginsburg said about wanting to be replaced by another president. The Obama Administration urged her to step down, and she decided to continue, even though she was very ill, and very old. So, i am glad that the president is going to nominate someone. And i am glad that mitch will go ahead. This position is not hers. A Supreme Court position is not and i
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