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...in the expansion. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal justices - Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor - to form the 5-4 majority. THE CONTEXT The decision affects nearly every American...
...to pay for insurance or cannot afford it. Justice Samuel Alito said, "You can get health insurance." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the point that people who don't participate are making it more expensive for others, that their "free choice...
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disclosed the sad news that she is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. True to her nature, the 75-year-old justice...
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being treated for colon cancer, and it is unknown when she will be able to return to work. Ginsburg, 66, underwent surgery...
...consider abolishing capital punishment for killers who committed their crimes as minors. Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer could not persuade the rest of the court to delay Wednesday's execution of a Texas inmate for...
...would be appropriate to revisit the issue at the earliest possible opportunity." Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed. Over the last three years, aside from the United States, only Pakistan, Iran and the Republic of Congo...
...is, without more, sufficient to justify a police officer's stop and frisk of that person,'' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court. ''We hold that it is not.'' Ginsburg added: ''Unlike a tip from a known informant...
...Clarence Thomas. Left in dissent were the court's more liberal justices -- John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer. By identical votes in a series of recent decisions, the court ignited what legal scholars...
...Kennedy and Clarence Thomas -- in partial support of the religious club's request. Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter dissented. The majority found that excluding the club was unconstitutional discrimination based...
...the early 1800s. All the justices but one -- Clarence Thomas -- are over 65. Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens have also been treated for cancer, and in recent years there has been widespread speculation...