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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everyone on this court assumed that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.
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It's an extraordinary act, I think, to withdraw jurisdiction from this court in a pending case.
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that seems to me worlds away from what we're talking about here.
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What is subtle about what is described here?
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Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it?
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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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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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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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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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are not warranted by the state interests -- administrative efficiency, fraud detection, informing voters -- alleged to justify those restrictions.
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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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The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people,
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School districts are charged with responsibility to offer to each disabled child an individualized education program (IEP) suitable to the child's special needs. The proponent of the IEP, it seems to me, is properly called upon to demonstrate its adequacy,