Word: ginsburgs
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...DOUGLAS GINSBURG President Reagan said upon announcing his intention to nominate the former Law School professor to the Supreme Court, is a jurist who remembers "not just the rights of criminals but, equally important, the rights of the victims of crime and the rights of society." It seemed odd when Reagan chose to so identify his second choice to replace Justice Lewis Powell. After all, Ginsburg's academic specialty is anti-trust law and he never has written on constitutional law, let alone criminal procedure. Had the president spoken with his nominee and discerned his views on Miranda rights...
...into the 21st Century. In fact, he was reading from a text prepared days before the Administration knew who the new nominee would be. A blank spot had been left for the name of the eventual nominee, and White House officials filled it in moments after Reagan decided on Ginsburg the morning of October...
...speech Reagan read was not an introduction of Doug Ginsburg to the nation, but the opening salvo in a highly partisan and combative plan authored by extremists in the Administration. Their goal was to ram down the throats of the Senate and the nation an unkown and unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition...
Nonetheless, Ginsburg possesses a remarkable resume for so young a man. Editor of the law review at the University of Chicago Law School, clerk for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall, and later professor at Harvard, he left teaching to join the Justice Department as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for regulatory affairs. After a year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg...
...Ginsburg's personal life may offer a clue to his thinking on social issues. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Ginsburg married Obstetrician- Gynecologist Hallee Morgan in 1981. Their two-year-old daughter is also named Hallee Morgan. When asked why the little girl does not have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...