Ginsburg

[ginz-burg]

noun

1. Ruth Bader 1933–2020, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1993–2020.

Example Sentences

Awards and certificates of recognition spoke to a distinguished career, including one signed by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — “She got the accent right on my name.”

From Los Angeles Times

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously responded that removing the Voting Rights Act’s protections was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

From Salon

What did surprise me was how Barrett misappropriated a well-known critique that Ginsburg had made of Roe in a law school lecture 33 years ago.

From Slate

But what else is taking snippets from an academic lecture that then-Judge Ginsburg—who, like Barrett, was a former law professor—gave at a law school 28 years before her death and deploying them to justify an outcome from which RBG would have powerfully dissented?

From Slate

Yes, in her 1992 address at New York University School of Law, remarks she titled “Speaking in a Judicial Voice,” Ginsburg, a year from becoming a Supreme Court justice, did say that the breadth of the court’s opinion in Roe created “prolonged divisiveness” and “deferred stable settlement of the issue.”

From Slate