Ugh: NYT’s Liptak Gushes Over ‘Rock Star’ Justice Ginsburg, AKA ‘Notorious R.B.G.’

<p>Friday’s <em>New York Times</em> featured a “Sidebar” column by the paper’s left-leaning Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak celebrating Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “24 Years on the Bench, and Still Putting Them in the Seats.” The online headline gave her the nickname: “On Tour With Notorious R.B.G., Judicial Rock Star.” Liptak is a long-time fan of Ginsburg’s social-justice approach to interpreting the law, and the text box summed up the tone of his lead National section “news”: “Boisterious applause for a genial justice in city after city.” Before digging up Ginsburg’s silly nickname (a reference to the rapper Notorious BIG), Liptak compared her to a music superstar of another eraL Bob Dylan.</p>

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