Posted on 04/10/2009 10:34:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Justice Ginsburg laments being court's only woman
By MATT LEINGANG, Associated Press Writer Friday, April 10, 2009
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday it's lonely being the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ginsburg told law students at a symposium at Ohio State University that she misses her former colleague Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired in 2006.
"It's lonely for me, not that I don't love all my colleagues. I do," Ginsburg said. Women bring a life experience to the court that men can't, she said.
When members of the public visit the court to watch the proceedings, Ginsburg said she can't help but wonder what they think.
"There I am all alone, and it doesn't look right," said Ginsburg, who was appointed to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
The Supreme Court of Canada has four women, including the chief justice, and the United States could benefit by looking at the legal systems of other countries, she said.
Ginsburg, 76, had surgery in February for pancreatic cancer. She has said the operation successfully removed the cancer but didn't address the issue Friday.
Ginsburg has said she wants to match the tenure of Justice Louis Brandeis, who served for more than two decades until age 82.
"It's the best and the hardest job I've ever had," she told students.
Court watchers suggest Ginsburg, 88-year-old John Paul Stevens and 69-year-old David Souter are the most likely to retire.
If Ginsburg or another justice leaves, it would fall to President Barack Obama to pick a successor. He would be expected to choose another liberal, keeping in place the 5-4 conservative tilt of the court.
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I have to admit, your on a higher plane than me when it come to education, so I don’t know as much. I just go to a small private college (with friends only in public). The only person I know to come close is my friend, who I was talking about before, is going to go to a school outside of washington DC (she wants to do law and economic policy work, and this school is suppose to be amazing for that, however, I do not know if her school is conservative or not. It wouldn’t matter, she’d eat them alive). Southern schools, as much as they might sound better in the south obey two rules. If it’s big and public it’s a marxist training ground (At least in GA). If it’s small and private there is a conservative bent, no matter what the teachers think (Oh, they all have such a bent, however, they mostly all love guns... it’s hilarious). If you mix and match, you get somewhere in the middle usually. We have so many transports, which add to the problem, however, most seemed to go to public... Hope that helps.
This is the kind of irrelevant crap that puts women under a cloud for appointment to any serious position. Who is to say she won't make a bonehead call just because she's "lonely" and dwelling on some female "life experience?"
She's too old to need Midol-- it must be senility.
Women bring a life experience to the court that men can’t, she said.
And I thought the Supreme Court was about the Constitution, not its members’ life experience.
For several weeks I was thankful that she sat 90% of the time. Got-to-concentrate! Ok, back to the photos of Justice G.
And the girls at that college were way better than anything in law school. Oh how naive I was at the time not to realize what an opportunity I had...
/giggles. That’s good to know, I was considering law school (my dad wanted me to consider it, since he is one), however, I’ll remember I might not find any good guys there :D
I thought you went to like an Ivy league school (something I would never be able to do. I barely making it though my college), so I never really looked about them in the south is the point I was trying to make.
I loved those two. Always one of my favorite segments of the show. “You want a Walnetto?” LOL!
breast cancer survivor she is./....
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