Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Photo: Screen capture/C-SPAN)

(CNSNews.com) - President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in June 1993. She was confirmed two months later by a vote of 96 to 3, and not a single senator asked her about her ten years litigating cases for the ACLU, she said in an appearance on Thursday.

"I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back to the way it -- the way it was," Ginsburg told a gathering at the George Washington University Law School.

She said the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh show how partisan the process has become:

"How would you compare the process that you went through with what's going on today?" the moderator asked Ginsburg:

"The way it was, was right. The way it is, is wrong," she said, drawing applause from the audience.

Ginsburg continued: