Ellis Washington calling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a traitor over statement that Egypt should look to constitutions newer than that of the United States in drafting a new constitution — based on an out-of-context statement while ignoring Ginsburg’s praise of the Constitution in the remainder of her interview — is far from the only instance of dishonesty in his Feb. 10 WorldNetDaily column.
Reacting to Ginsburg’s praise of the South African constitution, Washington wrote:
Why would a member of America’s highest court, founded under the oldest, most venerated and imitated Constitution in the world, place another constitution above the U.S. Constitution on foreign soil? Why would she praise South Africa – a nation whose 46 years of racial apartheid (1948-94) amounted to Jim Crow, involuntary servitude and slavery of tens of millions of black Africans, Indians, coloreds and others, and whose constitution actually has much less human rights protections than the U.S. Constitution?
In fact, the current South African constitution was adopted in 1996, after apartheid had ended. Washington offers no evidence for his claim that it “has much less human rights protections than the U.S. Constitution.”
Washington plucks another Ginsburg statement out of context, attacking Ginsburg’s statement in a New York Times interview that “I had thought at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of” as claiming that abortion was designed “reducing the number of social undesirables.” In fact, Ginsburg was attributing that view to others, not herself.
Later in a rant about how “the diabolical lineage is self-evident: Sanger–Ginsburg–Obama,” Washington cites “scientific studies exposing a direct link between women who had abortions and increased rates of breast cancer.” In fact, actual scientists linked to the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute have found no correlation between abortion and breast cancer.
Washington has a history of lying about Ginsburg.