Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I'd like to change the Electoral College

Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday that she’d like to change the Electoral College.

The Supreme Court justice, a liberal who has reached icon status for her many young followers, was at Stanford University on Monday night for a talk on the meaning of life when a student in the audience asked her what she’d like to change about society.


She offered that there are “some things I would like to change, one is the Electoral College,” without providing more details. She seemed like she was about to offer a caveat to that suggestion — “But that would…” she started — before she was interrupted by applause.

President Donald Trump, of course, was elected with an Electoral College majority but trailed Hillary Clinton in the popular vote. Ginsburg was widely criticized last year for airing her concerns about Trump in an interview and saying that she expected Clinton to win the election; she later apologized.

On Monday, according to CBS News , Ginsburg did not talk about Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the High Court or his highly controversial executive order banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. The order is being challenged in the courts.

Liberals, worried about the conservative bent the court might take if Trump has the opportunity to appoint more justices, have taken to urging Ginsburg to eat more kale, and thus live longer. She is 83.

Asked by another student in the audience who else on the court should eat more kale, Ginsburg replied, “Justice Kennedy.”