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Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 15
Died: 2020
Died: September 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Brooklyn
New York
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Joan Ruth Bader
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg
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People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.
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There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
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Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.
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Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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I'm not very good at promotion.
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Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.
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You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.
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Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.
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