TAPPER: Welcome back. The man set to take the stage behind me was just a few days ago called a faker by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg subsequently said she regretted the comments about Donald Trump. But the brouhaha is the reminder of the sheer chutzpah that earned the justice her quite unusual nick name. This is all the subject of this week's "State of the Cartoonion."</s>TAPPER (voice-over): Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there are fans she's known as Notorious RBG. A nod of course to the late rapper the Notorious BIG. The nickname is not because she's a fan of east coast 1990s hip-hop.</s>RUTH BADER GINSGURG, U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: I think a law clerk told me and also explained what Notorious RBG was a parody.</s>TAPPER: Ginsburg descent in the Hobby Lobby birth control versus religious liberty case even inspired a YouTube hit, albeit more folks than rap.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): The cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay.</s>TAPPER: To her detractors recently however the only BIG track is relevant to RBG is "Nasty Girl." Many including some of her fellow liberals are mad at her. While Notorious BIG rapped about traveling throughout the world Notorious RBG suggested she wants to move to the other side of the world if Donald Trump is elected. Notorious BIG rapped about mo money, mo problems. But RBG wondered why it wasn't more of a problem for Donald Trump that he has not released his tax returns. Since the outcry against her remarks of course RBG has apologized. Donald Trump called on her to resign. One wonders if east coast and west coast rappers can make peace, can these two?</s>TAPPER: Thanks for watching. I'm Jake Tapper in Cleveland at the RNC. "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS" is next.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg As Notorious RBG In This Week's "State of the Cartoonion".