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...RUTH BADER GINSBURG APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1993) She usually votes with the liberals, but Ginsburg has been restrained in using Court power to second-guess legislatures. During the first round of arguments in this case, however, she also defended the Florida court's power to interpret the word of the state legislature...
PLAN: Appoint Justices like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who interpret the Constitution broadly, relying as much on the principles underlying granted rights as on the intent of the words themselves...
PLAN: Appoint Justices like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who interpret the Constitution broadly, relying as much on the principles underlying granted rights as on the intent of the words themselves...
...promoted significant numbers of Jews to positions almost as high as the vice presidency: Many of his top Cabinet deputies, like Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin '61, come from Jewish backgrounds. Both of Clinton's appointees to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, are Jewish. But hardly anyone focused on their Judaism when these men and women were tapped, and no one cited them as symbols of diversity or tolerance. With Lieberman it's different--the word "historic" seems permanently welded to his name, like the W. in George...
...warning that the election "will decide whether or not we keep a woman's right to choose or see it taken away." This may sound like campaign hyperbole, but it isn't. Three of the Justices nearing retirement--John Paul Stevens, 80; Sandra Day O'Connor, 70; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 67 (all have battled cancer)--belong to the court's 6-to-3 pro-choice majority. Anthony M. Kennedy, usually counted among the six, dissented last week because, like many Americans, he finds the partial-birth method particularly abhorrent. Assuming Kennedy settles back into the pro-choice camp...