Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t think her male colleagues could have possibly understood what they were doing in the controversial Hobby Lobby case.
In an interview with Katie Couric that aired on Thursday, Ginsburg reflected on June’s Hobby Lobby verdict and said that the five male justices in the majority were hampered by a “blind spot.”
The Hobby Lobby case examined a closely-held business’s right to deny employees certain forms of contraceptives that it deemed religiously objectionable. The five male justices in the majority ruled to exempt businesses from providing the contraceptives. All three female justices dissented, including Ginsburg, whose scathing 35-page opinion earned her hero status on the left.
Explaining her dissenting view to Couric, Ginsburg described contraceptive protection as “something that every woman must have access to in order to control her own destiny.”
When Couric asked whether the five male justices “understood the ramifications of their decisions,” Ginsburg answered, “I would have to say no.” She also said that the justices fell victim to “a blind spot.”
However, she expressed hope that the justices will eventually see the light.
“…justices continue to think, and can change. So I’m ever hopeful that if the Court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be opened tomorrow.”
Laughing, she added that the justices have wives and daughters, and that daughters can sometimes change their fathers’ perceptions on this issue.
By Ginsburg’s thinking, we should have separate male and female courts for “controversial” issues.
Watch the full interview below via YahooNews:
