Trump is not a lawyer - Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people visited the US Supreme Court to pay their respects to the late justice. Image source, Reuters. President Trump said Ginsburg's successor will be a "very talented, very brilliant woman". What is the row about? Future of abortion rights firmly on the ballot.
Abortion: How do Trump and Biden's policies compare? What does the Supreme Court do? Why is the US top court so important? Who are seen as top contenders? She is a former federal prosecutor Amy Coney Barrett: Member of the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, she is a favourite of religious conservatives and known for her anti-abortion views. Related Topics. President George W. Bush R was in office in , when Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement months before the death of fellow justice William Rehnquist.
Congress was controlled by Republicans at that time. Democrats and Republicans, especially during the confirmation hearings for John Roberts in September, were unable to agree over the number of questions Bush's nominees should be subject to. Republicans, arguing for the lower end of the spectrum, referenced Ginsburg's hearings in which she declined to answer questions about abortion, gay rights, separation of church and state, rights of the disabled, and other questions about her personal views.
Further, only one witness was allowed to testify against her during her four days of hearings. Republicans called this the Ginsburg Precedent or Ginsburg Rule. Ginsburg herself defended her responses and became known for the mantra, "No hints, no forecasts, no previews. He said that "over opinions over 13 years as a federal judge" allowed Ginsburg to share her opinions through her body of work.
The Federalist Society issued a paper on the Ginsburg confirmations saying that the justice's general answers and avoidance of other questions were based on valid reasoning, and her confirmation vote supported that the U. Senate understood these reasons. Ginsburg was a widow. She was married to Martin Ginsburg from until he died in They had two children, Jane and James.
Ginsburg had lung cancer surgery on December 21, After the surgery, doctors indicated Ginsburg was cancer-free. The cancer was diagnosed after she fell and broke her ribs in November On July 17, , Ginsburg announced that she had been undergoing chemotherapy treatment since May for a recurrence of cancer on her liver. She said she intended to remain on the Supreme Court. These results are automatically generated from Google.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company , U. Ledbetter proved to the jury the following: She was a member of a protected class; she performed work substantially equal to work of the dominant class men ; she was compensated less for that work; and the disparity was attributable to gender-based discrimination.
Each and every pay decision she did not immediately challenge wiped the slate clean. Consideration may not be given to the cumulative effect of a series of decisions that, together, set her pay well below that of every male area manager.
Knowingly carrying past pay discrimination forward must be treated as lawful conduct. Ledbetter may not be compensated for the lower pay she was in fact receiving when she complained to the EEOC. Nor, were she still employed by Goodyear, could she gain, on the proof she presented at trial, injunctive relief requiring, prospectively, her receipt of the same compensation men receive for substantially similar work.
Celia herself did not attend college, but instead worked in a garment factory to help pay for her brother's college education, an act of selflessness that forever impressed Ginsburg.
Sadly, her mother struggled with cancer throughout Ginsburg's high school years and died the day before Ginsburg's graduation. Ginsburg earned her bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University in , finishing first in her class.
She married law student Martin D. Ginsburg that same year. The early years of their marriage were challenging, as their first child, Jane, was born shortly after Martin was drafted into the military in He served for two years and, after his discharge, the couple returned to Harvard, where Ginsburg also enrolled.
At Harvard, Ginsburg learned to balance life as a mother and her new role as a law student. She also encountered a very male-dominated, hostile environment, with only eight other females in her class of more than The women were chided by the law school's dean for taking the places of qualified males.
But Ginsburg pressed on and excelled academically, eventually becoming the first female member of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. Then, another challenge: Martin contracted testicular cancer in , requiring intensive treatment and rehabilitation. Ginsburg attended to her young daughter and convalescing husband, taking notes for him in classes while she continued her own law studies.
Martin recovered, graduated from law school, and accepted a position at a New York law firm. She graduated first in her class in Despite her outstanding academic record, however, Ginsburg continued to encounter gender discrimination while seeking employment after graduation.
After clerking for U. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri —61 , Ginsburg taught at Rutgers University Law School —72 and at Columbia —80 , where she became the school's first female tenured professor.
During the s, she also served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the U. Supreme Court. However, Ginsburg also believed that the law was gender-blind and all groups were entitled to equal rights.
James Dale. Justice Ginsburg also joined in dissent and was openly vocal of the most controversial case of ; Bush v. I cannot agree that the recount adopted by the Florida court, flawed as it may be, would yield a result any less fair or precise than the certification that preceded that recount. It consists of correspondence, memoranda, speech drafts, and schedules related to various aspects of the campaign. This collection is available for research but has not yet been digitized.
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