Getty Trump: Ginsburg’s comments a 'disgrace' to SCOTUS

Donald Trump wants Ruth Bader Ginsburg off the Supreme Court "as soon as possible," the presumptive Republican nominee said Tuesday, ripping into the justice after she commented that she "can't imagine" what the country would look like with him as president.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Ginsburg told The New York Times in an interview published Sunday, in which she also joked about moving to New Zealand. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”


Calling Ginsburg's remarks "highly inappropriate" for a Supreme Court justice to get "involved in a political campaign," Trump told the Times on Tuesday that the comments are "a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”

“That she should be saying that?" Trump remarked. "It’s so beneath the court for her to be making statements like that. It only energizes my base even more. And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible.”

In a separate interview with The Associated Press last week, Ginsburg suggested a preference for Hillary Clinton, remarking that the next president, "whoever she may be" will have "a few appointments to make."