Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has been serving in our United States Congress for over 23 years. He was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1994 where he served until he was elected as a US Senator in 2002. He was re-elected in 2008 and 2014, and is currently serving his third term as a US Senator. There’s a pretty high likelihood that the average American could pick out Senator Lindsey Graham in a line-up. Ruth Bader Ginsburg however, is no average American, she’s a United States Supreme Court Justice. So it should be pretty alarming to Americans of every political persuasion that 84 yr. old Justice Ginsburg didn’t even know that Senator Lindsey Graham, who has served in Congress for 23 years is NOT a woman.
3-term US Senator and former presidential candidate Lindsey Graham
3-term US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg erroneously labeled South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham as one of the “women of the Senate” on Monday.

Ginsburg’s misstatement came in her remarks upon accepting an Allegheny College award given to her and the late Justice Antonin Scalia for civility in public life. Hours after Justice Neil Gorsuch was sworn in to replace Scalia, Ginsburg took to the podium in calling on lawmakers to work together, but mistakenly identified South Carolina’s senior senator as a woman.

“I thought back to the 1993 confirmation of my nomination to the court—the hearing was altogether civil, the vote was 96 to 3. For Justice Scalia, the vote was unanimous,” Ginsburg said. “Let’s hope members of Congress, the members that Allegheny College has already honored — Vice President Joe Biden and Senator John McCain, the women of the Senate, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Lindsey Graham — let’s hope that they and others of goodwill will lead in restoring harmonious work ways.”

Via: FOX News

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