By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; January 31, 2019
If you’re passionate about on-time performance of Amtrak passenger trains traversing freight railroad tracks, you’d best pray for the health of RBG—the increasingly frail 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
If you share with Amtrak’s landlord that Amtrak has become a misbehaving tenant seeking upgrades at no increase in rent, and Ginsburg is present to cast a vote, then hope the freight railroads have a sufficiently strong legal theory to win over Ginsburg or another of the Court’s four liberal-wing justices, who otherwise likely will side with Amtrak.