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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer wrote concurring opinions. Breyer opposed further reevaluation of the Sony decision...
...narrow view of constitutional rights, preferring to consider the impact of law on the lives of everyday people. Rose to prominence and gained respect of congressional Republicans after deconstructing extremely complex deregulation guidelines for the airline industry. Often sides with the liberal wing of the Court: Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Stevens...
...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...
...took an unusual coalition of five Justices, including conservatives like Antonin Scalia and liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to come up with the landmark ruling that the guidelines violated defendants' right to a jury trial. But when the Justices debated a remedy, Ginsburg flipped her vote. Instead of backing the Scalia camp's solution, which was to let jurors listen to and rule on all the factors previously reserved for judges, she sided with Justice Stephen Breyer and their three other colleagues, who argued that judges should consult the guidelines but use their discretion on a case-by-case basis...
...Rehnquist if it amounts to, as a Senate Democratic aide put it, "trading an 80-year-old right-wing conservative for a younger right-wing conservative. You are not actually changing the balance of power." But if a moderate or liberal Justice, such as John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Sandra Day O'Connor, retires, the balance on the bench will be at stake--particularly when it comes to the fate of the court's 1973 abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade, which conservatives have said they would like to overturn. If Bush tries to replace any of those...