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Back by popular demand, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will present a talk at The Glimmerglass Festival on July 26 at 4 p.m. Justice Ginsburg will share her passion for opera and her perspective on law in the arts. The program will feature members of the Glimmerglass Young Artists Program enacting selected scenes that deal with law and justice, followed by Justice Ginsburg’s insights. This is Justice Ginsburg’s sixth time presenting at The Glimmerglass Festival. Order your tickets early for this sell-out event. The Glimmerglass Festival is an opera and musical theater festival presenting new productions every July...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will deliver a lecture at the Jack Stephens Center on the campus of UA Little Rock at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 3. The event is presented by the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton School of Public Service. It’s the latest in the Clinton School’s Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture series.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States will visit Buffalo on August 26. Justice Ginsburg will be hosted by the University at Buffalo School of Law, the Bar Association of Erie County, the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, and the Minority Bar Association of Western New York. She will spend part of the day speaking and teaching students at the UB School of Law and will be the special guest at an evening program at Kleinhans Music Hall for members and...

Charlie Rangel opens his mouth...and mocks the South: (hat tip: reader CRB) “It’s not just committees — our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,” Mr. Rangel said in an interview. To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here. “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in...