Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader. My Own Words. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
This is the opinion that established the supremacy of the Supreme Court over state courts in Constitutional matters. There was an alternative view then that states were sovereign entities and their courts decisions could not be reviewed or overridden by the Federal courts. This case settled that issue,
Bork was the proponent of the theory that the Supreme Court constantly exceeded its authority and became a de facto legislature to make reforms the elite, intellectual elements of society desired as opposed to what the majority wanted.
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton, replacing retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg wrote notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005).
