Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader. My Own Words. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
This statement was made in response to the leaked disclosure that the U. S. Security agencies had software which would allow them to turn Smart TV Sets into listing devices without ever physically touching the TV set—for that matter from any place in the world. This area wgere there was a wide range of poarized scholarly legal opinion. The view here in articulated by Comey was that in a nation, Law enforcment personnel and authorities. albeit with checks and court supervision. must be able to override all comes to and rights of privacy in order to enforce the law. The other view is that from the earliest days of our nation there were certain areas of privacy that may not be breached. Much of the debate in over 200 year has been about the checks and balances that are associated with why the provacy needs to be breached and the due process thereof. But especially with the changes in technology iver the last centuries, the other side that it is not merely the issue of due process, When brain scanning technology is developed can there be any possiuble leagal justificaion to forcing a person to be brain scanned to determine is real rellings about his wife or children, Can privacy of individual thoughts be subject to a search warrant as is speech or action? More and more legal s holars have moved away from Comey's position becasue of the ver poor pewrformance that law enforcement has had in being checked. If the chances of a FISA Court ever denying a warrant is less thatn the odds of being struck by lightening, is there really any meaningful surveilance in our current systems. In addtion to the hundreds of throusands of State and local police department and investigator scandals that have been revealed in teh last 50 years, the FBI, The CIA, Military Inteligence Agencies and the NSA -- all of whom have been exposed for violating the laws about illegal searches and siezures, lying to the Courts and to the Congressional Oversight Commitees and even to a number of Presidents, has shifted the thinking of some to regulate by providing absolute limits on abridging certain kinds of privacy like brain scanning, statements of religioully protected concessions, spousal privilege etc.
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).
