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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In accord with long-standing norm, every member of the current Supreme Court declined to furnish such information. The line each justice drew in response to pre-confirmation questioning is crucial to the health of the federal judiciary.
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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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I do not know of any case where we have impugned a state supreme court the way you are doing in this case. I mean, in case after case, we have said we owe the highest respect to what the ... state supreme court says is the state's law,
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It is not like I have gone crazy,I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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I do not want to give here any hints. I would not like to answer that question. I cannot say anything more than I have already said.
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And I want this committee to understand that if we go down this road of putting people's hearts in play, and the only way you can have a good heart is, Adopt my value system, we're doing a great disservice to the judiciary.
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Had the school district, in the first instance, offered Brian a public or private school placement equivalent to the one the district ultimately provided, this entire litigation and its attendant costs could have been avoided,
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this is a person whose job includes being candid, serving justice, serving truth.
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Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it?
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This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.
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That's just not the way our system works.
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The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people,