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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Perspective That Comes With Motherhood

Found at: http://youtu.be/a284cn4ti3Y

I ran across the next very interesting vid. I can tell you sure admire RBG in so far as I do. Sweet beans!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a large portion of her legal career advocating for women’s rights and was appointed as the second female justice to the Supreme Court in 1993. In this animated interview, she describes attending law school with a 14-month-old baby at home. Ginsburg attributes some of her career successes to her husband’s flexibility and the experience of being a mother. “I think I had better balance, better sense of proportions of what matters,” she says. “I felt each part of my life gave me respite from the other.”

This interview was conducted by Ryan Park for his story “What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad”.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Notorious RBG

Found at: http://youtu.be/kW6YEZMtIto

I came across the next very interesting video. I understand you guys admire Ruth Bader Ginsburg in so far as I do. Take a look!

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a pop culture icon.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Notorious RBG

Found at: http://youtu.be/kW6YEZMtIto

I ran across the next very interesting video. I know you guys all admire Ruth Bader Ginsburg just like I do. Check it out!

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a pop culture icon.
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The Ghost of Abigail Fisher is Haunting the Supreme Court

Will the Fisher v. University of Texas nightmare ever end? I feel like it’s haunting me. We need a SCOTUS exorcism, led by RBG, where the justices (those who voted against granting cert, anyway) banish Abigail Fisher’s petulance from the Court’s docket forevermore.
Fisher, begone!What is Abigail Fisher even doing these days? Is she trying to get a second bachelor’s degree at UT? Or is she just living in Edward Blum’s holding pen for potential litigants?
How about for Fisher, rather than ruling on the legal merits, Justices Thomas and Sotomayor simply lip sync for their lives, RuPaul’s Drag Race-style, and whoever wins gets to choose the outcome? If you agree with this solution, write your suggestions for which song they should lip sync in the comments section below. Maybe RuPaul can guest judge at the Court that day. (“Justice Thomas, sashay away.”)
Well anyway, the Court ended an exciting term today. And by exciting, I mean not dreadfully disappointing for liberals. In fact, it was a pretty good term for RBG-Americans. It’s probably a good sign when Justice Ginsburg isn’t forced to pen any towering dissents during the term.
Today in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, our judicial queen wrote for the five-justice majority that democracy is not only good, it’s constitutional. Four of her colleagues disagreed. Apparently for the conservative justices, democracy is more applicable in some cases than in others. When it comes to, say, same-sex marriage or the death penalty, it should be up to the people. Campaign finance and gun control, not so much. And of course, the voting public has no role in changing their electoral systems; that must be left up to state legislators—you know, the people who benefited from the current electoral systems. Chief Justice Roberts wrote in dissent, “Unfortunately, today’s decision [upholding a popular referendum] will only discourage this democratic method of change [i.e., the constitutional amendment process, in which a minority of states, and an even smaller minority of state legislators, can prevent an amendment from being ratified].” To quote Justice Scalia, “Huh?”
The power of the jabot.Then there was Justice Breyer’s dissent in Glossip v. Gross (a perfectly vile name for a lethal injection case), which only Justice Ginsburg joined, marking one of the important milestones in a liberal justice’s tenure: when they decide that the death penalty is irremediably unconstitutional. Justices Brennan and Marshall both arrived at that conclusion relatively early in their time on the Court; Justices Blackmun and Stevens both waited to the very end.
I found Justice Ginsburg’s decision to join Breyer’s dissent especially interesting because RBG has stated previously in interviews that she had decided not to follow the Brennan/Marshall approach because she felt that it had removed them from the debate entirely and that she could have more influence if she if she took a more open approach. I wonder what changed. Maybe Glossip helped make it clear that among the current justices, the lines have been drawn and there’s not much room for influencing a decision, so she might as well come down completely against the death penalty. But of course, that’s total speculation. In any case, it’s heartening to see her and Breyer take a definitive stand.
Well, that’s it for the 2014 term. All there is to do is wait for the horror of Fisher II. I’ll be looking forward to that lip sync.

 

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A Belated Defense of the Baddest

11/10/16 UPDATE: Yup, we’re all totally fucked.

Alternative Headline: Brilliant Jurist Calls out Hateful, Fascistic Ignoramus; Madness Ensues.
Perhaps RBG now thinks her comments regarding Donald Trump were ill-advised, but I cannot agree.
What has come of our society and our politics when someone who has proudly espoused policies that can only be fairly described as fascistic–including instituting a religious test for entry into the country, building a wall along our borders to keep out “rapists,” and torturing our enemies, not to mention…well, everything else–is treated, more or less, like just another political candidate? In most cases, I would agree that Supreme Court justices shouldn’t freely criticize partisan politicians as such. Indeed, if the Republican nominee is elected president, it could present problems for Justice Ginsburg if cases involving his administration come before the Court.

But let’s not forget: if Donald Trump is elected, we’re all totally fucked. Which I think was RBG’s point.

Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany through established democratic processes. Does that mean the democratic process was “good” in that case, or that it “worked,” or that it should not be criticized? Does history look unkindly those who criticized Hitler’s rise or tried to stop him from becoming chancellor? I don’t think so.
Donald Trump probably isn’t the next Hitler, even if he were elected—at least not in a one-to-one comparison regarding the likelihood of large scale genocide. But personally, I am against any amount of fascism. And while I think anyone who wants to be president is likely to be at least somewhat narcissistic, someone suffering from full blown narcissistic personality disorder, and who is manifestly bereft of any hint of moral fiber, should not hold the most powerful position in the world.
That anyone treats the possibility of a Trump presidency as acceptable, as something not to constantly decry as a potential catastrophe for the nation, is but another sign of the sorry state of our politics. It certainly isn’t fair to criticize RBG for merely pointing to what should be frighteningly obvious to everyone.

To repeat: Ginsburg/Sotomayor 2016!