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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...
Steven Breyer: The most junior member of the Court, Breyer was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, replacing Harry Blackmun. Breyer is seen as a pragmatist who often takes issue with Justices Scalia and Thomas's narrow view of constitutional rights, preferring to consider the impact of law on the...
Some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, another disaster was in the making as an EgyptAir Boeing 73.7, en route from Athens to Cairo with approximately 100 people on board, was hijacked last Saturday and forced down at Luqa Airport on Malta. Demanding fuel to continue on to an unspecified...
Last week the Supreme Court also reinvigorated its 22-year line of decisions upholding the media's First Amendment protections against libel suits. In recent years the court has sometimes seemed more sympathetic to those bringing libel suits, but this time the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that in cases...
The skewering hands of New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens took up Summers’ troubles in the magazine’s Feb. 14 issue, just a month into the controversy. Three female professors were drawn sitting in a campus cafeteria—the caption: “I hear we?...