Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes - Page 4

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• If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the people would begin to think that the law is not stable, the law is unclear. And that would not give them much faith in the law.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Law, People

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• The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Second Amendment, Needs, Arms

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• Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, Law, Choices

  "The Place of Women on the Court". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.nytimes.com. July 7, 2009.

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• It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

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  Crazy, Gone, Want

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• Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Parent, Criminals, Conviction

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Home, Caring

  "Exclusive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview: Full transcript". "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 17, 2015.

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• People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.

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  Opportunity, People, Track

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• People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

  "10 Ways to Blow a Death Penalty Case" by Marc Bookman, www.motherjones.com. April 22, 2014.

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• One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

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  Writing, Giving, Judging

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• In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

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  Law, Judging, Opinion

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• Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Doe, Election, Court

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Organization, Community

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

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  Religious, Risk, Establishment Clause

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• You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Gay, Two, Saying No

  "The eight exchanges you should read from today’s gay marriage arguments". Supreme Court oral arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act, www.washingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Police, Records, Holding On

  "High court reverses inmate's death sentence" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

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  Boys, Alive, Littles

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, United States, Ends

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• Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Arizona, Protection, Reason

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• I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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  Running, Thinking, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I'm not very good at promotion.

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  Promotion, Very Good

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Answers, Might, Projects

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Believe, Order

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• You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Citizens, Problem

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