She said what???

An astonishing story: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Clinton appointee, basically pooh-poohed the U.S. Constitution while in Egypt, and suggested that present-day statesmen in search of political wisdom would do better to rely on more contemporary constitutions instead of our own.

From ABCNews:

Asked by the English-speaking interviewer whether she thought Egypt should use the Constitutions of other countries as a model, Ginsburg said Egyptians should be “aided by all Constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II.”

“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa,” says Ginsburg, whom President Clinton nominated to the court in 1993. “That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary. … It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the U.S. Constitution.”

Ginsburg, you'll remember, is perhaps the strongest advocate of the ludicrous "living Constitution" theory, whereby the essential tenets of the mossy ole Constitution are gutted in favor of the so-called "evolving standards of decency" of our enlightened era, which must, of course, include the right to kill an innocent child in the womb.