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Justice Ruth Ginsburg said she has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court and suggested she could continue her work after President Obama’s term. In an interview published Sunday by The New York Times, Ginsburg said she was in good health after surviving two bouts with cancer. She said she intended to keep working “as long as I can do the job full steam.” She also said she was hopeful the president after Obama “will be a fine president,” a statement that could indicate the end of Obama’s term is not a factor in her plans. Ginsburg, 80, is...

A little more than a year ago, Harvard Law School Prof. Randall Kennedy sounded the alarm. “Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer should soon retire,” Kennedy wrote in the pages of The New Republic. “That would be the responsible thing for them to do.” If they didn’t, Kennedy warned, and “if Obama loses, they will have contributed to a disaster.” As the presidential race heats up, and the Supreme Court justices settle into their chambers to write their last and most consequential rulings of the 2011-12 term—from health care to immigration—Kennedy’s question once again seems relevant, even revelatory: most...

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Following are excerpts from an interview with US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which aired on Al-Hayat TV on January 30, 2012. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: It is a very inspiring time - that you have overthrown a dictator, and that you are striving to achieve a genuine democracy. So I think people in the United States are hoping that this transition will work, and that there will genuinely be a government of, by, and for the people. [...] I met with the head of the elections commission. I think that the first step has gone well, and that elections...

Didn't Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy get the word? Barack Obama's re-election is all but guaranteed if you believe the liberal mainstream media. Just today the CNBC head of news reported the belief that Obama's re-election would be guaranteed by the actions of the Fed. So why the concern about the health of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer? Could it be that Randall doesn't quite (GASP!) believe in the political invincibility of the Lightworker? Apparently such "heretical" thoughts must have occurred to Professor Kennedy judging by his New Republic article in which he urges the two...

Report: Ginsburg Released From Hospital After Fall Reuters reports that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to the hospital after experiencing drowsiness and falling. FOXNews.com Thursday, October 15, 2009 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reportedly was released from the hospital Thursday after falling from her seat on an airplane. Reuters reports that Ginsburg was taken to the hospital after experiencing drowsiness and falling. She was later found to be in stable condition.

As Sonia Sotomayor was readying for her confirmation hearings, The New York Times Magazine cast a loving gaze toward the lone female Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In so doing, the Times inadvertently shed light on some remarkable thinking by Justice Ginsburg. Those thoughts are so bracing that they ought to upstage the abortion questions surrounding the Sotomayor nomination. Ginsburg long ago declared her support for Roe v. Wade. Now, however, she has declared something more. When the subject in her interview with the Times’ Emily Bazelon turned to abortion, Ginsburg said, “Reproductive choice has to be straightened out....

A Double Democratic Litmus Test by Terence P. Jeffrey Posted Aug 17, 2005 Will a Republican President ever again name a non-stealth conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court? Or will liberal Democrats succeed in imposing not one, but two, Litmus tests on Supreme Court nominations? The first prospective Litmus test is that Democratic presidents, deferring to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, will name only publicly pro-abortion justices to the Supreme Court. The second prospective Litmus test is that Republican presidents, preferring to avoid a major political brawl with the liberal base of the Democratic Party (and their allies...

Roberts and death penalty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com For many years now, the U.S. Supreme Court has been used as the political playground of activists who could never get their causes approved by a popular vote of the people or through the legislative process. In 1973, activists got their way when the court struck down popular legal restrictions on abortion in most states. In 1996 in the Romer v. Evans ruling, the court overturned a provision of the Colorado constitution approved by voters in the state that denied special group rights on the...