SCOTUS Usually Steers Clear of Politics ... Sort of

ByKimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg BNA

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in a league of her own — both in terms of herpop-culture-icon statusand withrecent commentsshe made about Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

Several politicians have served on the high court, but it’s “highly unusual” for a sitting Supreme Court justice to make comments about a political candidate,Mark C. Miller, a political science professor at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and author of “Judicial Politics in the United States,” told Bloomberg BNA.

But that’s exactly what Ginsburg did in a series of press interviews ...