I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
Ruth Bader GinsburgYou're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
Ruth Bader GinsburgPeople who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg