Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sandra Day O’ Connor was a hardworking and revolutionary woman that never gave up even despite extremely challenging career obstacles. Her extreme strength with these obstacles made her able to become the first woman supreme justice. Sandra was born on March 26th, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Ada and Harry O’ Connor, were also hardworking and owned a ranch they called “Lazy B.” At Lazy B, Sandra learned her core values of being a country cowgirl but also, to be on time and studious. Her…

On August 29th 2011, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. During an interview with Dean John B. Attanasio, she discussed her confirmation process and commented on the different milieu's that candidates have faced when nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court. Ginsburg explained that “[Between] 1993 and 1994, the climate was so different from the way it is today...The vote on me was 93 to 3. Today my ACLU connection would most…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, once made a statement, “The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.” In today society, it is undeniable that legalization of abortion is one of the most controversial and hotly debated topics. There are various positions taken on this heated issue. I personally believe that abortion should be legal due to several distinct reasons. Three of the most…

Think about 2016 and the moments in history that have led us to this current day where in a couple of days we will possibly be experiencing the first woman president be inaugurated into office. Women had to come a long way and a lot had to change in order for the Democratic Nominee, Hillary Clinton, to even consider becoming president one day. The effects of women suffrage led to the start of the powerful feminist movement that changed the way women confronted social standards. Warrren K.…

Holder (2013) case regards in Shelby County, Alabama . Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a dissent in which she argued that Congress' power to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments encompasses legislative action such as the Voting Rights Act. The legislative history and text of the Amendments as well as previous…

Elena Kagan is the fourth woman in history to be appointed as a Justice in The United States Supreme Court. In this paper her background including her early life, legal education, and professional activities prior to her nomination to the Court will be discussed. Justice Elena Kagan was born on April 28th 1960 in New York City to Gloria and Robert Kagan. She was the second of three children in a middle class Jewish family living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Kagan’s mother Gloria worked as a…

Many have become role models for young women such as I. The woman who I choose to admire is Shirley Chisholm. She was the first black congresswoman. Also women have served on the supreme court namely Ruth BAder Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor , Elena Kagan, and the first being Sandra Day O’Connor all have served as supreme court justices in the United States America.They have passed many amendments to the constitution and bill of rights they have also passed bills…

about being able to control half the population’s reproductive rights. Abortion should be legal in all cases. Women should have control over their own bodies, and abortion is part of that right. In the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Carhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg says “Thus, legal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some…

state did not have to honor the federal treaty. In a 5-4 decision by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito with Mr. Breyer, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Souter, and Mrs. Ginsburg disagreeing, the members of the Supreme Court ruled that states are allowed to deny Article 36 claims if they are not raised at the proper time. However, according to the Chicago-Kent College of Law, the dissenters claimed that the…

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement began first gained notoriety in the summer of 2014, when two unarmed young black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, were killed by the police; Brown being shot and Garner strangled. (Chokshi 2016) The movement, represented by a hashtag (i.e. #BlackLivesMatter), began to gain a small following but the movement didn’t take off until the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November of that same year. The young boy was playing with an airsoft pistol in his local…