Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy

Associated Press ^ | 01/29/04 | GINA HOLLAND

[SF Geo]

Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that people concerned about losing freedom to government anti-terrorism efforts should speak out.

The Supreme Court is taking up several terror-related cases this spring, including challenges to the government detention of terror suspects without legal rights.

Ginsburg, speaking to a group of women's rights lawyers, was asked if people's rights were in danger.

"On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to overweigh the other," she said.

That would change, Ginsburg said, "if people come forward and say we are proud to live in the USA, a land that has been more free, and we want to keep it that way."

Ginsburg, who argued women's rights cases at the Supreme Court several decades before former President Clinton (news - web sites) named her to the court in 1993, said "an active public" made the difference in the victories of feminism.

Ginsburg, now 70 and one of the more liberal justices, won five of the six Supreme Court cases she argued. She was reunited Thursday with some of the clients she represented during an event held in her honor at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

"She was calling to our attention that work in women's rights, civil rights is under threat," said Lisalyn Jacobs, who handles government relations for the National Organization for Women (news - web sites)'s Legal Defense and Education Fund, which co-sponsored the event.

The Bush administration has been criticized by civil libertarians for some of its terror-fighting strategy, including the detentions of hundreds of foreigners at a military prison in Cuba and some U.S. citizens in America.

They are being held without charges or access to attorneys, something the government maintains is necessary for national security.

In April the Supreme Court will consider cases involving detainees in Cuba and America.

The court has refused to take up other cases stemming from the government's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the handling of immigrants swept up in the investigation.

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[SF Geo]

Never forget her when they diss a conservative supreme court appointee. These people must be stopped no matter what it takes!

Ginsburg's bio includes American Civil Liberties Union: Women's Rights Project, Founder and Counsel (1972-80); General Counsel (1973-80); National Board of Directors (1974-80).

[SF Geo]

What she sees as apathy is more likely disgust with her twisted anti-freedom agenda.

[11B3]

American public warns Ginsberg about using foreign rulings in her decision making.

Impeachment is one solution to those "justices" that fail to be true to their oath.

[SF Geo]

right on!

[CFC__VRWC]

She's basically made up her mind on these cases before even hearing a single argument. While that in itself doesn't surprise me in the least (name one liberal who bothers to trouble him/herself with facts), I find it sort of ominous that she chooses to so blatantly telegraph her decision. Makes me think she's certain that her fellow court Marxists already have O'Connor firmly in hand.

[Diogenesis]

It seems that some in Washington think Scottish law should rule here.

WAKE UP CALL

[LiteKeeper]

Will she need to recuse herself on those aforementioned cases since she has now spoken about the issue? Scalia recused himself after speaking out about "under God."

[SF Geo]

Ha Ha. That's a good one. A socialist with the integrity to recuse. Ho Ho. That is rich.

[fini]

Let us all remember that she is one of the five that decided to rip-up the 1st Amend. concerning political speech (McCain-Fiengold Campaign Law).

[longtermmemmory]

Ginsberg should recuse herself from future civil rights cases. Her words indicate pre-determination.

[B Knotts]

Exactly. She's a total hypocrite.

[pasquale]

Doesn't she realize there's a war on?

[longtermmemmory]

Which means that if the homosexual marriage issue comes before them, ginsberg will submit to them and do her part to destroy marriage.

This is why the FMA is needed. It takes it out of the Ginsbergs hands.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy. -Gina Holland, Associated Press Writer

We need to fight the apathy of people who are sitting idly by while judges run roughshod over the law. Don't let judges change the definition of marriage. Resist their efforts to change America to their liking - who asked them, anyway?

[Happy2BMe]

The next step in denying God's sovereignty over the United States will go to these nine people . .

"The question is or at least ought to be, how can such a small, godless, minority have such influence over our courts and legislative processes?"

Answer:

U.S. Supreme Court, 2003 - The Oligarchy*

(All Your Sovereignty Are Belong To Us!)

Back Row (left to right): Ginsburg, Souter, Thomas, Breyer
Front Row (left to right): Scalia, Stevens, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy

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[jimkress]

This is LAUGHABLE!

This idiot ruled that we have no rights to freedom of speech (a la CFR) and now whines about "Civil Rights Apathy".

What a hypocrite!

[AppyPappy]

How about a right to life, Ms Ginsburg?

[freeangel]

Let's see--Estrada was not confirmed because of his "conservative activist views", but this witch can promote her liberal activist views publicly as a sitting justice?

[ought-six]

Also, wasn't it Ruth Bader Ginsburg who, as an official with the ACLU (I believe she was its General Counsel at the time), said the age of consent for enganging in sex acts should be 12 years of age?

[ZULU]

Now I Hope GINSBURG is forced to RECUSE herself from any and all cases involving the Terrorist Act.

You know, like Scalia recused himself recently.

She's a Bolshevik B#tch, another gift from Klinton.

[SF Geo]

I think it is pretty clear she lost the battle with the stick. Lost BAD! I hate marxists, truely evil.

[mrsmith]

"By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer "

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"Gina Holland and George Shelton will be married on May 4. Shelton was communications director for Governor Ronnie Musgrove's 1999 campaign and later went on to work for the Democratic Governors Association and now is employed as a political consultant with the firm Strother-Duffy-Strother in Washington, DC. Holland is Mississippi's former Associated Press correspondent and currently serves as the AP's national writer covering the Supreme Court. "

It's so good of AP to make sure that they have nonpolitical coverage of the Supreme Court- "nonpolitical" as defined by Strother-Duffy-Strother.