Ruth Bader Ginsburg Voting Rights Act
She is the second female justice after sandra day o connor of four to be confirmed to the court along with.
Ruth bader ginsburg voting rights act. Justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote a crushing dissent to the supreme court s 5 4 decision tuesday to strike down a critical element of the 1965 anti discrimination voting rights act legislation. States must beseech the federal government for permission to implement laws that they would otherwise have the right to enact and execute on their own subject of. Justice ruth bader ginsburg attends california first lady maria shriver s annual women s conference 2010 on october 26 2010 at the long beach convention center in long beach california. It suspends all changes to state election law however innocuous until they have been precleared by federal authorities in washington d.
Ruth bader ginsburg ˈ b eɪ d ər ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ born joan ruth bader. Jun 2013 a voice to every voter undiluted by race. Ruth bader ginsburg blasts colleagues for hubris in eviscerating voting rights act by ryan rainey long beach ca october 26. Tuesday s supreme court ruling on the voting rights act looks like an echo of monday s ruling on affirmative action.
Justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote a fiery dissent to the supreme court s 5 4 decision tuesday striking down the part of the 1965 voting rights act that determines which cities counties and. Supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg on may 11 2013. March 15 1933 is an american lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the u s. Ruth bader ginsburg on government reform.
Justice ruth bader ginsburg penned the fierce dissent against the supreme court s 5 4 decision tuesday to invalidate a key section of the voting rights act accusing the conservative justices of. The voting rights act sharply departs from these basic principles. Click here for 7 full quotes on government reform or background on government reform. C id at 202.
Voting rights act still needed to prevent discrimination. Despite ginsburg s now famous warning her five conservative colleagues took a wrecking ball to a key provision of the voting rights act but insisted that the damage was limited.