Ginsburg: Congress ‘Not Equipped To Do Anything’

The kind of civil rights work that Congress managed just years ago, when the Lilly Ledbetter Act for equal pay was passed at the urging of some in the Supreme Court, is unlikely to be seen today, said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The current Congress is not equipped really to do anything, so the kind of result that we got in the Ledbetter case is not easily achieved today,” Ginsburg said in an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show. “Someday, we will go back to having the kind of legislature that we should, where members, whatever party they belong to, want to make the thing work and cooperate with each other,” she said. Regarding abortion right, she makes an interesting prediction.