Some current Supreme Court justices not pleased with the confirmation process

Justice Ginsburg in earlier days

Ginsburg Calls Out Congress For Politicizing Confirmations, Calls For Return To How It Used To Be Done  . . . "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Congress for politicizing the judicial confirmation process Wednesday night, urging a return to the bipartisan confirmations of decades past.  

"Speaking at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the justice urged lawmakers to “reach across the aisle” and restore collegiality to a process riven with brinkmanship.

“What a difference in time that was from what we are witnessing today,” she said in reference to her own glide-path confirmation, elsewhere adding that the “obvious culprit is Congress,” according to The Washington Post.

. . . “ 'The way it was was right,” she said. “The way it is is wrong.”

“I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back to the way it was,” she added. 

When discussing her confirmation process, Ginsburg often notes she commanded support from even from conservative Republicans like GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. She was confirmed 96-3. Other of her colleagues, like Justice Stephen Breyer and the late Justice Antonin Scalia, were confirmed to the Supreme Court by an overwhelming margin." . . .

The Dangers of Politicizing Supreme Court Confirmations   "The Democrats have become so divisive that they're even starting to turn off their own Supreme Court Justices. That's all I can figure after hearing this clip of Justice Elena Kagan talking about the damage the politicized confirmation process is doing to the perception of the courts." —Dana Loesch