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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Experience Shows the Supreme Court Needs More Women

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evettewend of LA 1:20PM August 25, 2009

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soundtracks of AL 5:16AM July 17, 2009

I thank the justice for todays decision with Chrysler.
Your honor we are the body of the U.S. Constitution
You are the defender.
God Bless
Mark Fossati
Seattle, Wa.

Mark Fossati of WA 4:33PM June 08, 2009

When Justice Breyer responded to the young girls suit against strip searching by describing boys' high school locker room antics as amusing (esp. to Justic Thomas)and therefore equivalent, Judge Gisburg exploded and so would have Justice O'Connor. Judge Sotomayor has declared that she tries to put aside her experiences in judging the law in the case. Clearly the teen-age experiences of these men are very active in coloring their assumptions of acceptable behavior even as they pretend to be the purist of jurists.
No greater argument exists than this story for the need for a woman with diverse life experiences to help provide justice for all in a diverse country.

Ethel Mussen of CA 2:11AM June 06, 2009

Just out of curiousity how does putting the best qualified person to do the job fit into that role? I am not saying that men or better or worse than women in any situation. I just wanted to know when being the right race or gender for job outweighed the most qualified? If a woman of color is the most suited for the job I will accept that since it is not my decision to make. But I feel like whoever is appointed should be there on merit and experience. (Just out of curiousity do people not trust Obama to make the right decision regardless of race or gender?)

Ymerej of SC 12:55PM May 20, 2009

to name women to the next four vacancies on the Supreme Court---since one of those seats would probably be Justice Ginsburg's.
Maybe Obama will do just that in 8 years.
Maybe, too, with some luck, one of the vacancies would even be Scalia or Thomas.

Muser of NM 12:36PM May 20, 2009