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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg /ˈbeɪdər/ (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933):3 is 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 justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) to be confirmed to the court, and one of four female justices to be confirmed (with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who are still serving). Following O'Connor's retirement, and prior to Sotomayor joining the court, Ginsburg was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, which were noted by legal observers and in popular culture. She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the court. Ginsburg has authored notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia, Olmstead v. L.C., and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.

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In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

Arms, Fighting, Gave, Important, Properly, Views

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

Adult, Adults, Decision, Make, Men, Women

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Abortion, Emphasis, Privacy, Right, Women

One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

Care, Doors, Express, Men, Rights, Thing

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me. ' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

Develop, Doll, Girl, Lawyer, Song, Teaching

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

Give, Giving, Judging, Judgment, Reasons, Writing

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

2012, Looks, States, United, United States, Years

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Death, Penalty, People, Punishment, Trial, Trials

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.

Appropriate, Average, Longer, Opportunity, Way

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Found, Historical, Reality, Rights, Texas

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

Army, Home, Keep, Men, Required

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

Civil, Judging, Law, Opinion, Stylized

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Religious, Organization, Community, Sustain, Drawn

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.

Caring, Difference, Differences, Help, Person, Thinking

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Freedom Of Speech, Hope, Today, Tomorrow, Writing

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

Advocate, Constitution, Principles, Realization, Seeing

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

Law, Person, Subjected, Undocumented, Welcome, Would Be

You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

Full, Gay, Said, Saying No, Sort, Two

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.

Employers, Given, Opportunity, People, Track

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Importance, Justice, Place, Thinking, Woman, Women

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