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An October 2018 meme attempted to contrast a supposed disdain for the U.S. Constitution expressed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, with the reverence for that document articulated by Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States: What this meme actually contrasts, however, is an out-of-context, incomplete sentence taken from a lengthy interview and an apocryphal quotation. The words attributed to Associate Justice Ginsburg (I would not look to the U.S. Constitution) had nothing to do with her suggesting that her judicial decisions were not rooted in the principles embodied the U.S. Constitution, as implied by their juxtaposition with the purported Jefferson quotation. Rather, in the course of a 2012 interview for Arabic-language Al-Hayat TV, Ginsburg expressed her opinion that a newly democratizing Egypt should be be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II rather than relying on the oldest written constitution still in force in the world: As noted above, the statement attributed to Thomas Jefferson in this meme is irrelevant here because it is apocryphal. It doesn't sound like something Jefferson would say (at least as expressed here), it is found in none of Jefferson's writings or papers, and is not known to have appeared anywhere prior to its posting on the internet in 2004.
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