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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It's almost like a trust that we are bound to preserve the institution and give it to our successors in the same good condition that we received it.
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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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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 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.
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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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this is a person whose job includes being candid, serving justice, serving truth.
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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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It had to register somehow with the Florida courts that that statute was there and that it might be in the state's best interest not to go around changing the law after the election.
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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.