The XX Factor : Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Emily Interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hanna Rosin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:17:00 GMT

Our own Emily has a fantastic and revealing Q & A with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg up on the New York Times website today. Their conversation ranges from Roe v. Wade to summer camp in the Adirondacks to Savana Redding to losing her shoe under the...(read more)

Savana Redding's School Was Wrong to Strip Search Her

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:02:00 GMT

The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional this morning the strip search of Savana Redding, the 13-year-old student who was supposed to have somehow been hiding prescription ibuprofen in her underwear, only wasn't. That's a relief. At oral argument, some...(read more)

AT&T v. Hulteen: The Ghost of Bad Supreme Court Rulings Past

Emily Bazelon — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:55:00 GMT

Agreed, Dahlia, that Justice Ginsburg is carefully applying the law as she sees it in her dissent in AT&T v. Hulteen . Her problem is a bad old ruling that haunts this case and that all but one of her male colleagues refused to banish. In General...(read more)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ain't No Oprah Winfrey

Dahlia Lithwick — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:09:00 GMT

The Supreme Court ruled, 7-2 yesterday in AT&T v. Hulteen , that women denied credits toward their pension for their pregnancies in the 1960s and '70s—before it became illegal—were not the victims of gender discrimination. The question came down to...(read more)

Ginsburg on Why the Supreme Court Needs Another Woman

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:51:00 GMT

Dahlia , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would surely agree with you that it's long past time to rub out the equation that a woman justice equals a second-rate one. To make the case for why she needs a female colleague (or colleagues), she took the unusual...(read more)

No Courtroom Drama

Dahlia Lithwick — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:24:00 GMT

Despite the extraordinary long-distance diagnostic skills of Sen. Jim Bunning , R. Ky., who predicted at a Saturday Republican fundraising dinner that she’ll be dead in nine months , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench for oral argument this morning,...(read more)

Tireless Justice Ginsburg

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was supposed to give the keynote address last week at a conference on women's equality and the law, at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. She couldn't make it, because of her recent cancer-related surgery. But she called, en route...(read more)