Ruth Ginsburg
Ruth Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburgis an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justiceand one of three female justices currently serving on the Supreme Court...
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth15 March 1933
CityBrooklyn, NY
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EPA can exercise its supervisory power to block a facility's construction, ... As EPA found, the Alaska department's own records showed there was scant, if any, evidentiary basis for choosing less stringent emission-reduction technology.
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that seems to me worlds away from what we're talking about here.
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A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court's history.
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This court should not short-circuit the normal review process absent a showing of irreparable harm stronger than that presented here,
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everyone on this court assumed that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.
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But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view.
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What is subtle about what is described here?
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We do not agree that the latter follows from the former like the night, the day,
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We hold that back wages are subject to ... taxes prescribed for the year in which the wages are in fact paid,
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We're told these methods are less gentle to the patient,
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You are well aware that I come to these proceedings to be judged as a judge. ... It would be wrong for me to say or to preview in this legislative chamber how I would cast my vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide. ... Judges in our ... system are bound to decide concrete cases, not abstract issues. ... A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints. ... It would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
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We fail to see why Congress, having expressly endorsed an expensive surveillance role for EPA, ... would then implicitly preclude the agency from verifying substantive compliance.
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We have neither desire, need, nor right to know most of Judge Roberts's views on most imaginable subjects,
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Well, there are all kinds of hearts. There are bleeding hearts and there are hard hearts, ... She has a different value system than I do. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have a good heart.