Category: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Latest: Five justices to attend speech

The Supreme Court says five justices are expected at President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, but sometime Trump critic Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t be among them. Ginsburg apologized in July for negative remarks she made about Trump to The Associated Press and other news organizations.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fast Facts

December 12, 2000 – Ginsburg is one of the four dissenting votes in Bush V. Gore which resolves the disputed 2000 Presidential election in favor of Texas Governor George W. Bush. January 26, 2007 – In a speech at Suffolk Law School, she says she dislikes being the only woman on the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court seems split in case of boya s death near border

Examining a tragic shooting death on the U.S. border with Mexico, a divided Supreme Court on Tuesday puzzled over the rights of foreigners to sue in American courts. The case involving a Mexican teen slain by a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s gunshot, which traveled across the border, elicited questions about how a ruling could affect victims of American drone strikes.

Ginsburg talks partisan rancor, Electoral College and kale

As Washington prepares for the contentious hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a wistful Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented Monday night on how the confirmation process has changed, recalling that one Republican senator who supported her back in 1993 “today wouldn’t touch me with a ten-foot pole”. The 83-year-old justice allowed that while she is still friends with the senator, Orrin Hatch of Utah, the confirmation process has degraded.

Justice Ginsburg laments partisanship at Stanford talk

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented partisanship in Congress during a talk at Stanford University on Monday and said she hoped it would return to an era when “it was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines.” Ginsburg did not address the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia or President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which could end up before the high court.

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At VMI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on a monumental ruling

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a poignant visit to the Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday, her first trip to the state-funded school she profoundly changed some 20 years ago by striking down its all-male admissions policy. In a talk before the school’s cadets, Ginsburg said she knew her opinion, which opened the doors to women, “would make VMI a better place” and thought that those who were initially opposed would learn from their women classmates “how much good women could do for the institution.”

Nation-Now 48 mins ago 7:20 p.m.Trump picks Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump nominated federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the void Tuesday night, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court Trump was unveiling his nominee to the nation on live television from the East Room of the White House after a day filled with palace intrigue, during which the media mapped the whereabouts of Gorsuch, from Colorado, and federal appeals court Judge Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, another favorite for the seat. Gorsuch, 49, is a Scalia acolyte who believes judges should interpret laws as they are written and enforce the Constitution as the nation’s framers intended.

Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today

Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court. Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court.

The Pence Oath

News that Vice President-elect Pence will be sworn into office by Justice Clarence Thomas strikes us as a missed opportunity. Not that we lack for regard for either of them; we endorsed Mr. Pence and have backed Justice Thomas through every one of his heroic struggles.

Paris police: 17 arrested over Kardashian West jewelry heist

After four days of testimony, prosecutors rested their death penalty case Monday against convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, calling more than two dozen people during the trial’s penalty phase. After four days of testimony, prosecutors rested their death penalty case Monday against convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, calling more than two dozen people during the trial’s penalty phase.

Ap Fact Check: Ruth Bader Ginsburg not resigning over Trump

A widely shared story that claims Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told The Associated Press that she plans to resign from the Supreme Court in protest of Republican President-elect Donald Trump is false. The story was posted by several websites in December and versions of it have been in circulation since soon after the AP published its interview with Ginsburg on July 7. Ginsburg told the AP when asked about a potential Trump presidency: “I don’t want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs.”

Trial of executive blamed in meningitis outbreak is underway

Opening statements are scheduled Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in the trial of Cadden. Cadden is a former top execu… After four days of testimony, prosecutors rested their death penalty case Monday against convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, calling more than two dozen people during the trial’s penalty phase.