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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

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Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

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When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

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Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

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The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

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The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 26th, 1930

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