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    Justice Ginsburg: 'I Am Very Much Alive'

    The Supreme Court justice sat down for an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg and said that despite battling cancer for a third time earlier this year, she's not going anywhere any time soon.
    by Nina Totenberg Jul 24, 2019 5 minutes
    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits for a portrait in the Lawyer's Lounge at the Supreme Court of the United States

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview Tuesday that she does not favor proposals put forth by some Democratic presidential candidates who have advocated changing the number of Supreme Court justices if the Democrats win the presidency.

    Ginsburg, who got herself in trouble criticizing candidate Donald Trump in 2016, this time was critical, not of any particular Democratic contender, but of their proposals to offset President Trump's two conservative appointments to the court.

    "Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time," she said, adding, "I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court."

    Several Democratic candidates have indicated an openness, if they were to win the presidency, to adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court to reduce the power of the current conservative majority. Some would also like to enact term

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