Ruth Bader Ginsburg: State

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Explore interesting quotes on state.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 32 quotes22 likes

“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Writing for the court, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)

“You're saying, no, State said two kinds of marriage: the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

United States v. Windsor oral argument,

“In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissenting, Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000)

“Abortion prohibition by the State, however, controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men. That was the idea I tried to express in the lecture to which you referred.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO) asked about her remarks during her 1993 Senate confirmation hearing about the above quoted lecture, Ginsburg clarified her stance with the quoted sentences. As quoted in: Olivia Waxman (August 2, 2018): Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wishes This Case Had Legalized Abortion Instead of Roe v. Wade. In: Time Magazine. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220527151841/https://time.com/5354490/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade/ from the original https://time.com/5354490/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade/ on May 27, 2022. <br class="br">1990s