Tag: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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It isn’t any wonder that Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett is drawing a lot of scrutiny as she is one of the women on President Donald Trump’s shortlist for appointments to the Supreme Court. And the president has stated on a number of occasions that he plans to nominate a…

In 2020 we face a serious Constitutional crisis if we don’t have nine justices on November 3rd. Well this is hogwash. We went without nine justices in 2016…during an election…for fourteen months…and nobody was worrying about a Constitutional crisis. And in 2016 is was more likely an issue for people…

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Just sayin’: And I bet you were wondering if I had forgotten Senator McConnell…nope: Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, vowed Friday night to hold a vote on a Trump nominee… …Mr. McConnell has said that in case of an opening this year, he would try…

I am reprinting it in its entirety, but here’s the link: My Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But because she…

Thoughts and prayers to her family. This is certainly a loss for America and a sad moment in our history. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice…

There is a marvelous article in today’s New York Times interviewing long time friends Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the face of American feminism and former editor of Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem. I enjoyed reading it but felt it didn’t go anywhere near far enough in covering their…