Ruth Bader Ginsburg — "I think that the government should not be involved in making choices for people.…"
I think that the government should not be involved in making choices for people. It's a very personal decision, and it should be up to the individual to decide what's best for them, not the government. That's a fundamental right, and it's something that I feel very strongly about. And I think that it's important for us to protect that right, and to make sure that people have the freedom to make their own choices, and to live their lives as they see fit, without interference from the government.
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Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1993-2020), gender-equality litigator at the ACLU Women's Rights Project before the bench, and the second woman ever appointed.
Closely associated with
Sandra Day O'Connor (first woman Justice and her predecessor in that role) and Elena Kagan (Obama-appointed colleague).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Antonin Scalia, conservative originalist Justice (1936-2016) — RBG and Scalia disagreed on nearly every major constitutional case but maintained a famous personal friendship over opera. Their friendship-across-doctrinal-divide became the canonical example of judicial collegiality despite total disagreement — and Scalia's originalism vs RBG's living-Constitution liberalism are the cleanest two American constitutional methodologies.
