23 September 2020 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist swearing in Ginsburg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, as her husband Martin Ginsburg and President Clinton watch © U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Ralph Alswang
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American jurist who was an
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President
Bill Clinton and was generally viewed as belonging to the
liberal wing of the Court. Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after
Sandra Day O’Connor. During her tenure Ginsburg wrote notable majority opinions, including
United States v. Virginia (1996),
Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), and
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000). Between O’Connor’s retirement in 2006 and appointment of
Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents.
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