Category: Justice
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Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means – and in any context, whether it’s judicial or otherwise – I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I think some of my colleagues’ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg