The likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called on Supreme

Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to quit.

In a tweet, Mr Trump said the top judge was "making very dumb political statements"
and should "resign".
His call comes after Justice Ginsburg, 83, moved beyond her usual candour to
disparage Mr Trump in a series of interviews.
Critics say the liberal judge has risked her legacy to lambast Mr Trump.

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"He is a faker," Justice Ginsburg told CNN on Monday. "He has no consistency about
him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego."
In a recent New York Times interview, Justice Ginsburg also said a Trump
presidency would be unimaginable.
"I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president," she said. "For the country, it could be four years.
For the court, it could be - I don't even want to contemplate that."

Justice Ginsburg also quipped that she would move to New Zealand if he should win the
White House.

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Was Ginsburg wrong to attack?

Mark Joseph Stern of Slate writes Ginsburg "made a very conscious decision to
cash in her political capital" because it "may be the one thing the justice can do to
help prevent a President Trump".
University of Minnesota professor Richard Painter told the New York Timesthat
if Mr Trump is elected, the comments invite challenges to her impartiality.
Edward Whelan III, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center who has
previously criticised Justice Ginsburg, told the Washington Post that she went too
far. "I am not a fan of Donald Trump's at all. But the soundness or unsoundness of her
concerns about Donald Trump has no bearing on whether it was proper for her to say
what she said."
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at
Irvine, found her comments unsurprising. "I don't think anyone should be surprised
that Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks this," Chemerinsky told Bloomberg. "Saying this
doesn't change the reality."

On Tuesday, Mr Trump fired back, telling the New York Times it was "highly
inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political
campaign, frankly".
The likely Republican nominee said her remarks were a "disgrace to the court" and
insisted she should apologise.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan also weighed in, saying the Justice's remarks
revealed "bias" during a CNN town hall interview on Wednesday.
"For someone on the Supreme Court who is going to be calling balls and strikes in the
future based upon what the next president and Congress does, that strikes me as
inherently biased and out of the realm", he said.