Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Under the Doctrine of Discovery ... fee title to the land occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign -- first the discovering European nation and later the original States and the United States
Of the two components of the presentation of a case, the brief is ever so much more important
It’s what we start with; it’s what we go back to.More quotes »
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Goldberg: 'Conservative' and the High Court
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "ObamaCare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court keep the good Read more »
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A portrait of a president 8 years ago: When George & Laura hosted Bill & Hillary
Knox, now 77, had painted the portraits of Justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; the latter recommended him to the Clintons. Knox also told me that he had asked both Clintons “if there are things [they want in their portraits] that they fee from The Hill Read more »
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'Me The People': A Less Than Perfect Parody
Me the People Or, One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America by Kevin Bleyer Hardcover, 317 pages | purchase close Purchase Featured Books Me the People Or, One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of from NPR Read more »
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Justice Ginsburg should continue to be a vital voice on Supreme Court
In commentary in The New Republic last year, Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy argued that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should retire for fear that "if Justice Ginsburg departs the Supreme Court with a Republican in the White Hous from The Morning Call Read more »
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Justices' summer plans point to late June finish
WASHINGTON One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down its last, often biggest, opinions of the term. But the justices' summer travel schedules make it a pretty safe bet that blockbuster health care and immigration cases will be decided by the from KansasCity.com Read more »
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Stephen L. Carter: Liberal Fears Imperil Justice’s Job
On election night 1980, after the scope of Ronald Reagan’s landslide became clear, a major television network solemnly reported that Justice Thurgood Marshall had told friends that he planned to step down from the Supreme Court and allow the defeated pre from FedSoc Blog Read more »
