Posted on 01/27/2007 5:13:05 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Ginsburg Laments Solitary Role on Court
By KEN MAGUIRE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON (AP) -
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that she dislikes being "all alone on the court" nearly a year after the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
Ginsburg, who spoke to an assembly at Suffolk Law School, said she sees more women in law school, arguing before her court and sitting as federal judges. But there is not enough female perspective on the nine-member high court, she said.
"We have very different backgrounds," Ginsburg said of herself and O'Connor. "We divide on a lot of important questions, but we have had the experience of growing up women and we have certain sensitivities that our male colleagues lack."
Ginsburg, 73, did not take questions afterward to elaborate.
"It was good for the public to see that women come in all sizes and shapes, just as men do, and they don't necessarily look alike or think alike," she said.
O'Connor, a moderate who retired from the high court last January, became its first female justice when President Ronald Reagan appointed her in 1981.
Ginsburg was appointed by President Clinton in 1993 and is among the court's liberal wing.
President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers in October 2005 to replace O'Connor, but Miers dropped out under fire from conservatives who questioned her qualifications. Bush turned to Samuel Alito, a federal appeals court judge from New Jersey, who was ultimately confirmed.
Ginsburg, who in the early 1970s successfully argued gender-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court, said she's encouraged by the numbers of female judges on lower courts.
"My consolation is that if you look at the federal courts altogether, you get a much different picture than you do if you look only at the U.S. Supreme Court," she said.
Renee Landers, who teaches constitutional law at Suffolk and attended the speech, identified with Ginsburg's comments. "We've all had the experience, alas even now, of being the only woman in the room," she said.
Thank God.
Because, of course, the idiot American public didn't know this until Ruth Bader Ginsberg joined the SCOTUS.
I guess we know where she stands on quotas.
Retire, toots. The rest of the boys want to put their pin-ups back up. Well, maybe not David, he's kinda' . . . you know.
Since she is going to vote the liberal/socialist way on every issue, she'd just as well sleep while cases are presented. In fact, she could just have staff phone her vote in. Thank you, Billy Jeff, for appointing this ACLU clown to the court. What a rancid legacy!
Well,boohoo,quit and go home.
Then retire, you spawn of Mengele!
"she dislikes being "all alone on the court""
So leave
Not at all embarrassed to get political, eh? Go away, just go away.
I would love to see her joined by a hard line right wing woman like Edith Jones of TX but the Senate would never let that happen now. What a shame.
Hey, NOW nags, even a dim-witted liberal like Ginsburg can get this. Why can't you?
Why does she need any other perspective but what is written in the constitution? If she strictly follows what it says she could be on the bench with eight monkeys and it wouldn't matter.
:-)
Well, we'll probably lose the White House in '08, so if she can hold out that long she'll probably have some company.
"But there is not enough female perspective on the nine-member high court,"
I don't mind female perspective providing it's not the "living" Constitutional interpretation (you know re-write it as you go along) this liberal witch and her pals on the court have !!!
That's actually a flattering picture of Ginsburg.
"Well, we'll probably lose the White House in '08, so if she can hold out that long she'll probably have some company."
Possibly even if we win. Some GOP candidates can't tell what makes a good candidate. Giuliani actually said on FoxNews that he couldn't see any difference between Roberts & Ginsburg. He considers both good choices for SCOTUS!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163223,00.html
Which, the one in her robe or the one in her natural habitat?
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