That should set off some fireworks. She's of course correct, the modern Republican party has gone so far to the right that it is embracing policies that once were acceptable only in the Soviet Union, fascist Italy, or Nazi Germany.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a "really scary idea."
"My sense now is that the judiciary is under assault in a way that I haven't seen before," she said.As an example, she mentioned proposals by senior Republicans who want an inspector general to police judges' acceptance of free trips or their possible financial interests with groups that could appear before them.
"It sounds to me very much like the Soviet Union was .... That's a really scary idea," said Ginsburg, who was put on the court by President Clinton and is one of its liberal members.
