Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMy rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgOur goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg