Justice Ginsburg: If I Were Nominated Today, My Women’s Rights Work For The ACLU Would

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Justice Ginsburg: If I Were Nominated Today, My Women’s Rights Work For The ACLU Would Probably Disqualify Me
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/30/307623/ginsburg-womens-rights-work-disqualifies/

In a speech yesterday at Southern Methodist University law school, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered a grim assessment of the judicial confirmations process. If she were nominated to the Supreme Court today, her background as a civil rights attorney would likely prevent her from being confirmed:

Ginsburg said that to practice for her Senate confirmation hearings, White House staffers in mock hearings grilled her on her work for the ACLU. During those mock hearings she told them: “There’s nothing you can do to get me to bad mouth the ACLU.”

Such grilling, though, did not happen, she said. She was confirmed 96-3.

“Today, my ACLU connection would probably disqualify me,” she said.


(more at link)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at SMU
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700174796/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-speaks-at-SMU.html




In this photo provided by Southern Methodist University, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks as part of a lecture series at the university's Dedman School of Law in Dallas Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.

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1. In other words - some dems wouldn't stick up for her. Nt

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Neither party is in favor of civil liberties anymore

[progressoid]

9. Sad but true.

We're running out of liberals in America.

[DURHAM D]

3. Yep - and most of the young women in that room truly believe

they are living in a "post-feminist" world. They don't like the "f" word.

[Maccagirl]

4. Yes, the women's movement is dead and buried.

I have a dim memory of it (the 70's I think) before girls became convinced that boys wouldn't like them if they were (gasp) "their own person."

[Major Hogwash]

5. Wow, she actually said that? Incredible. This is why we need Obama in 2012.

And a Senate full of Democrats.
We can't let the jackbooted thugs of the GOP/Tea Party/Corporatocracy take away the rights of people like Ginsburg to serve this country.

[Quantess]

6. Time for a kick.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Unfortunately, there are anti-civil liberties, pro censorship and otherwise authoritarian asshats on

our side, too.

:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

8. And another!

:kick:

[Laelth]

10. k&r for Justice Ginsburg. n/t

-Laelth