Senate Democrats were . . . more than willing to subordinate their curiosity to principle and precedent in 1993 when Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the stonewalling nominee. Not that there was any doubt that Ginsburg would be a reliable liberal on the Supreme Court. ...
Ginsburg played her cards close to the vest during her confirmation hearings, yielding less useful information than a hard-core al-Qaida detainee at Gitmo. ... [see the link for some examples of the questions she was asked and refused to answer]
The flat-out refusal by nominees to answer questions of this kind has become known as the "Ginsburg Rule." Senate Republicans honored it in 1993, confirming Ginsburg 96-3. Democrats and liberal activist groups like People for the American Way, now demanding direct responses from Roberts, made not a peep about Ginsburg's silence back then. These are not people to be taken seriously.
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