I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Frases de Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.
A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.