Today is Saturday, March 15, the 74th day of 2014 with 291 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Andrew Jackson, …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate at a same-sex wedding this weekend in what is believed to be a first for a member of the nation’s highest court. Ginsburg will officiate Saturday at the marriage of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a …
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by all accounts, has been an excellent Supreme Court justice and is still, at 80, able to do the job as well as ever, maybe better. But she’s jeopardizing everything she believes in by staying on the court, and if the interview she gave to Adam Liptak …
Scalia and Ginsburg are really disappointed in the Supreme Court. But only one of them is right to be. Last week Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia each grabbed headlines with controversial late-summer comments about the dysfunctions of the current Supreme Court. Speaking to a Montana meeting of the …
“I haven’t gone horseback riding in four years. I haven’t ruled that out entirely. But water skiing, those days are over.” JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, 80, on concessions she has made to aging, though she remains healthy. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, August 25 – NYTimes.com.
Being a member of the Supreme Court is a fancy job, and half of the people currently doing it are well past standard retirement age, so it’s not too surprising to hear that the justices’ workdays are not filled with the pinging of Outlook and GChat. As Elena Kagan — who …
Today is Saturday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2013 with 143 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Saturn and Venus. Those born on this day are under the sign of Leo. They include Edmund Jennings Randolph, the …
Today is Monday, July 29, the 210th day of 2013 with 155 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Saturn and Venus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include French historian Alexis de …
Under the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriages even in states that have legalized it. This week, the Supreme Court ruled DOMA unconstitutional. There are two possible grounds, distinct and in some ways contradictory, for doing so. The curious thing about the court’s DOMA …
Sooner or later, there’s going to be another Supreme Court nomination — indeed, if Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants to maximize the chances of being replaced by a justice with similar views, it could be as early as this summer. What can we expect? Well, to begin with, a filibuster. That’s …
Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2013 with 291 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Neptune, Mercury, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Andrew Jackson, …
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin that she’s likely to stay on the court for at least another two years, health permitting. “It’s not this year. You can never tell when you’re my age,” Ginsburg said. “But, as long as I think I have the candlepower, I will do it. And I figure next year for certain. After that, who knows?” Ginsburg is the Court’s oldest …