SUPREME COURT VOTES TO LIMIT JUSTICE GINSBURG’S PAY
by R J Shulman
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Supreme Court once again split by the thinnest of margins ruled yesterday that Justice Ginsburg cannot sue the Federal Government over unequal pay that may have stemmed from an inequity that started years earlier. The Court Ruled 5 to 4 that Justice Ginsburg, the only female member of the Supreme Court, did not make her objection regarding unequal pay in a timely fashion.

“I am quite disappointed,’ said Ginsburg, “that the majority of the court fails to recognize that in the real world, real salary discrimination is not often going to be discovered by underpaid women employees within the 180 day time frame.” Justice Ginsburg commented that she had been so honored when she was tapped to be a Supreme Court Justice that she didn’t immediately check her pay stubs against her male counterparts. Ms. Ginsburg is receiving $22,347.98 less per year than Clarence Thomas, the lowest paid male Supreme Court Justice. “And he doesn’t even think for himself,” Ginsberg commented.

“A woman’s place,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr, speaking for the majority, while “high-fiving” Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. who had supported Alito's anti-Ginsberg position, “is in the home, not the House, Senate or Supreme Court.”