NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s continuing protest of the national anthem is “dumb and disrespectful”, the supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview released on Monday. In a wide-spanning interview with Yahoo News’s Katie Couric on Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words, Ginsburg said she thought that while Kaepernick’s protest was legal, it was “a terrible thing to do”. I think it’s really dumb of them,” Ginsburg said. I think it’s dumb and disrespectful. Barack Obama has also weighed in on Kaepernick’s protest.

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2016 17:15 UTC