[Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process. Discussing the recent University of Michigan affirmative action cases, Justice Breyer contrasts an opinion by Clarence Thomas, arguing that the Equal Protection Clause requires government actions to be] colorblind, ... long denied full citizenship. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
[Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had made a similar point in an April speech.] We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe -- liberty, equality and justice for all -- are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
Had the school district, in the first instance, offered Brian a public or private school placement equivalent to the one the district ultimately provided, this entire litigation and its attendant costs could have been avoided. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it? Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
School districts are charged with responsibility to offer to each disabled child an individualized education program (IEP) suitable to the child's special needs. The proponent of the IEP, it seems to me, is properly called upon to demonstrate its adequacy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
It's an extraordinary act, I think, to withdraw jurisdiction from this court in a pending case. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
It is not like I have gone crazy,I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
The First Amendment requires us to be vigilant in making these judgments, to guard against undue hindrances to political conversations and the exchange of ideas. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
are not warranted by the state interests -- administrative efficiency, fraud detection, informing voters -- alleged to justify those restrictions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
[Justices in their decision noted the Constitution specified copyrights are to extend for only] limited times, ... gives Congress wide leeway to proscribe 'limited times' for copyright protection. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
It confers no privileged status on any particular religious sect, and singles out no bona fide faith for disadvantageous treatment. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0
everyone on this court assumed that assisted suicide was a matter for the states. Ruth Bader Ginsburg More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes 0