Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The experience I don’t want to see repeated occurred in ‘Bush v. Gore.’ The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‘Citizens United.’ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I thought ‘Heller’ was a very bad decision.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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‘Whole Women’s Health’ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg