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the first order of business after hanging up the phone was a celebratory hug and a kiss from Marty.
🥺💞
one of our nation’s best judges, progressive in outlook, wise in judgment, balanced and fair in her opinions.
protect all the American people, not simply the powerful.”
judge who “can’t be called a liberal or conservative.”
speaking slowly, and enunciating each word,
the listing for Jane Ginsburg under “Ambition” was: “To see her mother appointed to the Supreme Court.” The next line read: “If necessary, Jane will appoint her.”
Yessss
the civil rights movement of the 1960s from which the women’s movement drew inspiration,
I have a last thank-you. It is to my mother, Celia Amster Bader, the bravest, strongest person I have known, who was taken from me much too soon. I pray that I may be all that she would have been, had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished as much as sons.
Beautiful words
glad she was happy and not afraid to show it.
She reads the whole Constitution, doesn’t try to rewrite it to fit her political perspectives but understands it. You know, her job is to keep doing what the founders told her to do, which is form a more perfect union.” 9
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My heart is overflowing, because those are the people who have made it possible for me to be here today.” 3
Awww
if confirmed, I will try in every way to justify his faith in me.
You want to make the people who give you a chance proud
That huge, spirit-lifting collection shows that for many of our people, an individual’s sex is no longer remarkable or even unusual with regard to his or her qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court.
women not shaped from the same mold, but of different complexions.
The increasingly full use of the talent of all of this nation’s people holds large promise for the future,
Constant realization of a more perfect Union, the Constitution’s aspiration, requires the widest, broadest, deepest participation on matters of government and government policy.
Always evolving to be better
Judge Hand defined that spirit, in a way I fully embrace, as one which is not too sure that it is right, and so seeks to understand the minds of other men and women and to weigh the interests of others alongside its own without bias.
Several senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, thanked nominee Ginsburg on behalf of their own daughters for her work on gender equality.
“She explained. She elaborated. She scolded. She demurred. She even laughed. Ultimately, she conquered.”
the American Bar Association (which gave her its highest possible recommendation),
Eagle Forum
Phyllis schlaflys wild crazy ass 🙄
history and quotidian details,
Quotidien!!
“a living Constitution,” whose fundamental principles should be interpreted in light of changing circumstances the founders could not have imagined.
She illustrates her vision with a brief history of the American ideal of equality, a concept limited at the nation’s founding by a culture that kept early Americans “from fully perceiving or acting upon ideals of human equality and dignity,”
potential.” The story of the Constitution, she says, is “the extension . . . of constitutional rights and protections to once-excluded groups: to people who were once held in bondage, to men without property, to Native Americans, and to women.”
Doctrinal limbs too swiftly shaped, experience teaches, may prove unstable,” thereby “plac[ing] stress on the [judicial] institution.”
a woman’s ability to control her reproductive life is critical to equality in life and law.
“looking beyond our borders” is “altogether fitting and proper for lawyers and judges in the United States.”
given its own policies of racial segregation, including the segregation of African-American soldiers fighting and dying in the war against Hitler.
“propelled an evolution yet unfinished toward respect, in law and in practice, for the human dignity of all the world’s people,”
miscegenation
the use of race-conscious criteria . . . to keep the races apart, and the use of race-conscious criteria . . . to bring the races together.”
she envisions dissents as part of a conversation among the Justices.
one cannot get a firm grasp on the substance of our decisions without some grounding in the rules, practices, and traditions that frame our decisionmaking.
How do we manage those thousands of pleas for review?
Trading 😊
the draft dissent, when circulated in-house, produces the very effect the writer seeks: it leads one or more Justices to rethink the matter and supply the vote or votes necessary to grant review.
denied unemployment compensation to pregnant women.
no longer ready, willing, and able to work.
Justice Alito
does take time to write short.)
we agree, without dissent, in a fairly large percentage of the cases we take
Oral argument is an occasion not for grand speechmaking, but for a conversation about the case, a dialogue or discussion between knowledgeable counsel and judges who have done their homework,
opportunities to use a question as a springboard to advance a key point.
temptation to use footnotes.)
This is amusing because throughout this book i have been compelled to read the footnotes as i read the text vs at the end of a chapter
The institution we serve is ever so much more important than the particular individuals who compose the Court’s bench at any given time.
One of the most important tasks of the judiciary is to protect the individual from the power of the state.
packing the Court to suit the mood of the political branches (Congress and the president) would severely erode the status of the judiciary as a co-equal branch of government.
citations to foreign laws and decisions should not be controversial.13 “References to cases elsewhere are never binding,”
Aharon Barak, former president of the Supreme Court of Israel: “ ‘Democracy is not only majority rule. Democracy is also the rule of basic values . . . values upon which the whole democratic structure is built, and which even the majority cannot touch.’ ”
Judicial independence in the United States strengthens ordered liberty, domestic tranquility, the rule of law, and democratic ideals. . . . It would be folly to squander this priceless constitutional gift to placate the clamors of benighted political partisans.
