Category: Justice
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On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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To have a romance, you have to have time. I’m a justice. I’ve written a book. The guy’s gonna have to wait until I’m a little bit freer.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The task of a judge is not to make the law – it is to apply the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
Sonia Sotomayor