Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t want to imagine a Trump presidency. [Jezebel]
Blind item about a rich & beloved actor stepping out on his wife. [LaineyGossip]
Katt Williams is a mess, you guys. [Dlisted]
Elle Fanning’s got red gym pants. [Moe Jackson]
Emma Roberts’ jumpsuit is sort of ‘70s flavored. [Celebslam]
Manhattanhenge is a cool phenomenon. [Mashable]
Britney Spears teases her “Private Show.” [OMG Blog]
Taylor Swift has a creepy stalker. [ICYDK]
America is not for single working moms. [XOJane]
Julianne Hough loves to run. [IDLY]
Mariah Carey looks drunk as hell in this photo. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Scott Eastwood says words about the ocean. [Socialite Life]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t want to imagine a Trump presidency. She is not alone!
She is not alone!!
Who wants to imagine a Drumpf presidency? He has been sued or named in lawsuits 3,500
times. Everything from not paying contractors who worked for him to fraud claims against the Trump University. If he can’t run his own business without lawsuits, how would he run/ruin the country? Rather than paying out in his lawsuits, his companies claim/file for bankruptcy.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/not-comprehensive-history-trump-business-deals-gone-wrong
Which is why I laugh my ass off at the irony of him calling Hillary a crook.
Dude is a straight-up snake oil salesman.
Agreed but the “crooked Hillary” line is sticking and I wish her team would come up with a good one for him b/c I think she has to fight fire with fire.
He can’t run his companies period. He survives personally because he has so much Manhattan real estate, which will always generate revenue. His businesses fail.
+1,000,000
Blind item: Tom Hanks??
That was my guess.
That was the first name that came to my mind! I hope it’s not true!
That was my first guess, too! Hope not… Just saw an article on DM that his mom died. Condolences to the family RIP
My guess also
That’s who I thought of as well. 🙁
This was my guess as well because he and Rita are so beloved and have been together forever, but there were rumors a few years back that things were rocky. I think the trouble with their son has put a strain on them so I wouldn’t be surprised if they are together but really aren’t together.
If memory serves from the early 80s, Tom Hanks was fooling around with Rita on his first wife. Thirty years together tends to whitewash things, but there was precedent.
Tom Hanks was my guess, too. noooooooooo!
I was thinking Hugh Jackman.
Can you name his wife without googling her name? I don’t think they are that beloved and I have always suspected she is his beard.
Hanks is a good guess, but Hollywood likes to throw around longevity as something around the 7 to 10 year mark so I want to throw Matt Damon in the mix.
Yes, it’s “rumored” that Damon has been influenced, in a bad way, by his buddy Ben.
Ron Howard? Steven Spielberg?
Spielberg was another guess of mine. Only because Lainey said he is worth “A LOT”. That fact she put that in all caps made me think it could be some in the billion dollar range.
Will and Jada again?
I don’t think they would considered “beloved” which seems to be the main hint in this blind.
I don’t want to imagine The Supremes without The Notorious RBG.
+1000
X 10
Jeff Bridges and wife?
Not a big secret that Jeff has a wondering eye. He has spoken of it before.
That’s who I was thinking too.
Lainey’s blind doesn’t say it’s an actor though.
If it’s an actor I’ll go with Tom Hanks or Hugh Jackman.
If it’s someone behind the scenes I’d say….Ron Howard.
Ron Howard is a great guess
Noooooooo! Not Opie😥😥😥
I’ve seen other sites mention Bono, because he tends to have a “beloved” kind of reputation, he was name-dropped in another Lainey post today, and the emphasis on earnings points to the just-released Forbes list. U2 came in at #30.
Something about the wording of the post makes me think it’s NOT an actor.
That’s another really good guess. And Bono is someone who is involved in the fashion industry.
I agree. The wording makes me think it’s not only not an actor, but specifically a musician: “it’s not like those with his job <a musician?), in his position (lead singer?), are known for fidelity.” Many actors cheat, but there’s this known streotype that all famous musicians must sleep around a lot and that when a woman decides to marry a rockstar, she must know he’ll cheat on her. Blinds about cheating actors are worded differently.
Bono and his wife have an open marriage.
Yeah, they do. That’s been out there ever since Bono was with Christy Turlington years and years ago.
Yeah, a very good guess…
Good guess! I can see it being him.
In a similar vein, how about Springsteen?
I saw someone suggest Jon Bon Jovi on another site.
I think you are right. She just mentioned Bono in an unrelated 50 Shades of Grey post.
I think you got it. Lainey almost always gives a hint in other posts and the Bono reference seemed totally random in the France/FSOG post.
I’m with the Bono guess.
From the LA TImes, July 11, 2016
“If Roberts or Justice Clarence Thomas gave an interview in which they expressed horror at the possibility of a President Hillary Clinton, they’d be savaged by Democrats for partisanship unbecoming a judge. Ginsburg shouldn’t get a free pass.
Arthur Hellman of the University of Pittsburgh Law School refused to give her one. In an interview with the Washington Post, Hellman said: “I find it baffling actually that she says these things. She must know that she shouldn’t be. However tempted she might be, she shouldn’t be doing it.”
And, if folks think that lawyer Hellman is mistaken in his comments, I am sure they are based on the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges. I am very disappointed at Judge Ginsburg.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president’s appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration’s energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions.
Justice Scalia passed away in February of this year….he’s no longer on the court.
But that’s not the point – he had a personal relationship in a case that the court was going to hear.
Re: Ginsburg – I honestly think that she is going to retire which is why she is making the comments so openly.
I don’t think that Justices are prohibited from having personal relationships–they just need to follow the rules of conduct.
“Under judicial rules, Supreme Court justices, unlike other judges, have the power to decide whether to remove themselves from cases. The justices have wide discretion since their decisions cannot be appealed.”
Bill Mears CNN Washington Bureau
Thursday, May 6, 2004
The same article states that Scalia wrote a 21 page memorandum re: the issue of conflict of interest….this is not the equivalent of slamming a presidential candidate in multiple interviews as Ginsburg has done.
There are also rules of conduct for retired judges. Ginsburg erred IMO.
@Amelie, Scalia actually slammed sitting presidents several times. And while he may have written about conflicts of interest, he frequently sat on cases from which he should have recused himself. There is no way a judge can be viewed as impartial when his own child is working on the case before him.
And sitting Justice Clarence Thomas has endorsed presidential candidates.
@lilacflowers:
Could you provide any citations for your comments? For example, although I found a reference that Justice Thomas’ wife endorsed a presidential candidate, I couldn’t find a reference to him doing so. I also couldn’t find a reference to Scalia’s son arguing a case before the SC while Scalia was sitting or Scalia slamming presidential candidates….unfortunately,my search engines are not very productive. Thanks.
It was well-known that former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor attended a dinner party on the night of the 2000 election and when Gore was declared the winner she commented that a Gore presidency would be terrible for the country. She then went on to vote in favor of Bush in Bush v Gore.
Scalia’s sons, yes, more than one, second chaired multiple cases before the Supreme Court which their father heard. Generally, that is considered a conflict of interest. And I didn’t say he slammed presidential candidates; he slammed sitting presidents.
Thomas supported Ted Cruz.
@lilacflowers;
Re: Scalia’s son’s second chairing a case before the SC. I don’t see this as a conflict of interest issue, especially as there were 8 other justices hearing the same case. It would be another matter if Scalia were the only judge. BTW, isn’t second chair a back-up and support role to the primary?
From my point of view, I am interested in seeing the media reports of suspected SC justice unethical behavior as I would like to read it for myself. For example, I tried looking for the citation of Justice Thomas publically stating that he endorsed Ted Cruz and the only reference I found was an endorsement of his wife, Ginni.
Why are court justices bereft of a right to a political opinion? They’re qualified voters, and frankly, it’s not like we don’t know how they’d be voting based on their court decisions, anyhow.
I am going to amend my earlier post per an ABA article I just read. Apparently, the Code of Conduct only applies to lower court federal judges.
“The Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges—which applies only to lower federal court judges—says judges should not “make speeches for a political candidate, or publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office” or “engage in any other political activity.”
Though the code doesn’t apply to justices, the idea of keeping judges out of politics helps protect the rule of law, according to New York University law professor Stephen Gillers, who wrote a post for the New York Times Room for Debate column.
ABA Journal/Did Justice Ginsburg’s comments on Donald Trump violate ethics rules?
Jul 12, 2016 10:55 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Now, I am wondering what guidelines if any the SC Justices have re: ethics…
#RBGYOUARENOTALONE
Donald Trump as a lot of Junk in the Trunk.
lmao…that’s what I noticed, too!
He is a big fat lard ass.
I’m absolute crap at blind items but I immediately went to Tom Hanks and thought NOOOOO!
I don’t want a Trump presidency either, but it is a mistake for a sitting supreme court justice to engage in politics.
It’s a mistake to believe that they don’t. She isn’t voting on a case in which she needs to be impartial; she is speaking as a citizen who has the right to vote.
RBG clearly has no f*cks to give. I love her. Wish we could clone 8 more of her.
Moi aussi, Velvet Elvis, I love her, too, and frankly I have no f*cks left to give, either — this whole 2016 election campaign has become grotesque.
(Love yr name, btw. Hope no one copies it. Someone has just joined CB and made up a name very similar to mine. I guess that happens, but after having this name at CB for so many years, it kind of unsettles me.)
Racist Donald or Wall Street Hillary?
Any system/process that serves up those two choices is broken.
I love RBG but I think a Supreme Court Justice making political commentary on a presidential election is, in my opinion, inappropriate. I believe SCOTUS needs to project an image of impartiality on these matters.
Justice Ginsburg issued what I would call a statement-not an apology-today re: her comments. She stated,
“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” she said in a statement. “Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”
As one talking head pointed out yesterday, Judge Ginsburg made derogatory statements about Trump in multiple interviews with different media outlets. They contrasted this with Sandra Day O’Connor’s gaff which was apparently the result of too much wine.
There’s been quite a kerfuffle about this from even liberal papers.
I have to agree with the Donald on this, she needs to resign. She is either at that point we all get to at an advanced age when we don’t give a hoot and blurt out our opinions. Or, she frankly doesn’t have the temperament required for this office. I think she has brought scandal to the court and I can’t help wondering about how she is approaching her work on the bench.