Skip to main content

Trending

  • Fox/Dominion Lawsuit
  • Meta
  • Twitter

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Utility Navigation

  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Media Matters for America

Main navigation

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Media Matters for America

  • Nav
  • Search

Main navigation

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Trending

  • Fox/Dominion Lawsuit
  • Meta
  • Twitter

Utility Navigation

  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Supreme Court
Audrey Bowler / Media Matters

Right-wing media figures make disparaging remarks after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death

Written by Brennan Suen, Parker Molloy & Rhea Bhatnagar

Published 09/18/20 10:05 PM EDT

Share

  • Email
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Print

Comment

  • Comments

Right-wing media figures responded to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- a feminist and cultural icon -- with disparaging remarks, attacks on Democrats, and even excitement.

Despite refusing to even hold a hearing for President Barack Obama’s 2016 nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has signaled that he will be moving to fill Ginsburg’s seat with President Donald Trump’s nominee. Right-wing media have already fallen in line.

Some also referred to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation, including a report and testimony from Christine Blasey Ford saying he assaulted her at a high school party decades earlier, to attack Democrats in light of an upcoming nomination process.

Others critiqued Ginsburg's religious beliefs and disparaged her support for abortion rights and LGBTQ people.

The co-founder of right-wing outlet LifeSiteNews said he hoped she “repented”:

BREAKING: Pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87, 45 days before election

“May God have mercy on her soul,” said John-Henry Westen, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews. “Justice Ginsburg was known for her friendship with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pro-life Catholic who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. We hope that his faith had an impact on her later in her life, and that she repented of her pro-abortion activism at the end.” [LifeSiteNews, 9/18/20]

The Latest

  1. Sean Hannity instructs Jim Jordan to include “defunding the hiring of the 87,000 IRS agents” in debt ceiling negotiations

    Video & Audio 03/28/23 10:00 PM EDT

  2. On CNN, former FBI official explains “we are awash in guns in this country, and that simple fact makes all kinds of issues that we struggle with worse”

    Video & Audio 03/28/23 3:43 PM EDT

  3. On Elon Musk’s Twitter, a reinstated QAnon influencer launched a conspiracy theory that left a company facing false pedophilia accusations

    Article 03/28/23 11:29 AM EDT

  4. Daily Wire's Michael Knowles says “guns have nothing to do with” Nashville shooting

    Video & Audio 03/28/23 11:22 AM EDT

  5. Fox guest suggests we can't ban assault weapons because the government is untrustworthy

    Video & Audio 03/28/23 10:24 AM EDT

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • …
  • Next page ››

In This Article

  • Supreme Court

    supreme court
Comments
0 Comments
Share Count
0 Shares

Related

  1. Rupert Murdoch allowed Fox to promote a legal theory used to justify overturning the 2020 election that he privately called “ridiculous”

    Article 03/14/23 1:45 PM EDT

  2. Ben Shapiro: Worst Supreme Court rulings of all time includes cases recognizing marriage equality and employment protections for LGBTQ individuals

    Video & Audio 02/02/23 1:14 PM EST

  3. Prominent political battles over LGBTQ rights in 2022 highlight right-wing media hypocrisy on government, business, and speech

    Article 12/12/22 11:55 AM EST

Media Matters for America

Sign up for email updates

Footer menu

  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Submissions
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

© 2023 Media Matters for America