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...ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get his views on who might make a suitable choice. Hatch urged Clinton to forgo one of his options, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, who Hatch thought would prove too hard to get confirmed. Instead Hatch promoted two others: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was eventually approved, and Stephen Breyer, who was appointed a year later. What conservatives tend to remember about that episode is that both Justices became stalwarts of the court's liberal wing...
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer wrote concurring opinions. Breyer opposed further reevaluation of the Sony decision...
...Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Named to the Court in 1993 by Bill Clinton, Ginsburg replaced Byron White. Ginsburg is well known for her commitment to striking down laws that treat men and women differently; Clinton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equity law." She shares Justice Breyer's conviction that law should serve the individual. Most likely to side with Justices Souter, Stevens and Breyer...
...Recent nominations include Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg under President Clinton. Robert H. Bork, who was nominated by President Reagan, was the last nominee to be rejected by the Senate. President Nixon had two nominees denied. The most recent contested nominee was Clarence Thomas who only received a 52-48 vote...
...course, men taking over the kitchen from officebound wives is not entirely new. Martin Ginsburg, husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been the main cook in his household for nearly 50 years--ever since he took a bite of Ruth Bader's tuna casserole ("as close to inedible as food could be"). Their daughter Jane agreed with this assessment at an early age, he recalls, and mounted "a campaign to exclude Mommy from the kitchen, which Mommy fully supported." Upon Mommy's nomination to the bench, Jane remarked that she grew up "in a home with...