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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What is subtle about what is described here?
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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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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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I wonder why law schools waited so long to welcome women?
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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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We do not agree that the latter follows from the former like the night, the day,
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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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descending that slope, because once you ask me about this case, then you will ask me about another case that is over and done, and another case.
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everyone on this court assumed that assisted suicide was a matter for the states.
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that seems to me worlds away from what we're talking about here.
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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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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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Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it?