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  • 2017-03-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg Retiring and Moving to New Zealand? (en)
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  • During an interview with the New York Times in July 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she couldn't imagine what the U.S. would be like with Donald Trump as president and joked about moving to New Zealand in the event that he won the upcoming election: Embellished versions of Ginsburg's remarks quickly followed. For instance, the web site The Rightists claimed that Ginsburg had threatened to resign from the Supreme Court and relocate to the Land of the Long White Cloud: The Rightists is a hybrid web site that publishes a mixture of fact and fiction. In this case, the quote that originated with the New York Times interview was real, but Ginsburg's threat to resign was made up out of the whole cloth. The fake news from The Rightists was picked up by other disreputable web sites as the rumor gradually changed from Ginsburg's threatening to resign in the event of a Trump victory, to Ginsburg's announcing her resignation after the election, to her actually retiring and moving to New Zealand: Although articles published by Success Street (and nearly identical versions can be found on other disreputable web sites such as Rumor Journal) claimed that Ginsburg had in fact resigned and moved to New Zealand, they offered no evidence to back up those reports. Instead, they based their articles on a fabricated quote that originated in a months-old piece of satire. On 23 February 2017, more than two weeks after Success Street claimed that Ginsburg had resigned and moved to New Zealand, the Supreme Court Justice appeared on BBC's Newsnight to talk about the future of the U.S. — with no mention that she would be a passive observer of those events from her retirement spot in New Zealand: (en)
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