Political Quotes

“this past Friday, our Nation lost a giant of a jurist and a champion of gender equality, workers' rights, voting rights, and civil rights. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg understood the critical importance of the Supreme Court in safeguarding our constitutional individual rights. About 2 years ago, I was sitting next to Justice Ginsburg at a dinner, and we were talking about the concerns we had about a very divided Supreme Court. She shared her concerns that we would see many more 5-to-4 decisions coming in the future, decisions that would roll back civil rights' protections, workers' rights, individual rights, efforts to address climate change, and, clearly, a woman's right to choose--decisions that would harm everyday Americans. As someone who had been on the Court for more than a quarter of a century, Justice Ginsburg had understood the dangers of partisan split decisions. She had spent more than two decades standing up for gender equality, voting rights, workers' rights, and civil rights. She was often also a key vote in upholding critical rights for everyday Americans, such as clean air and clean water protections. Within a few years of joining the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg had written a landmark opinion in a 7-to-1 decision that had struck down the Virginia Military Institute's traditional male-only admissions policy. She had spoken for nearly the entire Court when she had written that the differential treatment of men and women ``may not be used . .…”