Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had plenty of controversial opinions in her 85 years of life and 24 years on the nation’s highest court, contemplating questions like, are corporations entitled to freedom of speech, and are campaign contributions an exercise of that speech? Does due process entitle same-sex couples to the right to marry? Do male-only military academies violate the equal protection clause? But in a Wednesday appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she decided to wade into what might be the most fraught debate of all: Are hot dogs sandwiches? Her answer is yes — sort of. “You tell me what a sandwich is, and I’ll tell you if a hot dog is a sandwich,” she told Colbert when asked to weigh in. Photo: AFP/Getty Left: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2009 (Mandel Ngan/AFP) Right: Hot dogs (Getty) Left: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2009 (Mandel… MORE RBG ‘Can she eat more kale?’ Hordes of liberals want reassurance RBG’s health is good Colbert defined a sandwich as “two pieces of bread with almost any type of filling in between, as long as it’s not more bread.” With her incisive legal acumen, Ginsburg… Read full this story

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