Katie Couric admits editing 2016 RBG interview to remove comments critical of anthem kneeling

[LBJer]

The right is acting like Ginsburg is a victim of political correctness here, but I think this is more an example of the media sanitizing things to protect a supposed liberal saint who made illiberal remarks.

That doesn't make it any better. Ginsburg is entitled to her view on the anthem protests and is entitled to express it, especially since it's one held by a substantial proportion of the population, according to this a majority at the time, even if liberals don't like it.

I agree, but I don't think the fact that a "substantial proportion" of the population believes something makes the right to express it any stronger than it would have been otherwise.  There's just as much a right to express something 1% of people believe as there is to express something 99% of people believe. 

[LBJer]

Ginsburg's biggest mistake wasn't this, but not resigning from the court while Obama was President. I think she honestly bought into the hype that people created around her and wanted to leave the court on her own terms rather than what was good for the country.

You can argue in hindsight that it was a mistake, but how many people thought that Donald Trump would ever become president?