Symposium on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mar 12, 2009

New England Law Review

Former law clerks of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed her theory, philosophy and impact on the law. Topics included Justice Ginsburg's opinions on Bush v. Gore and common law federalism, and her use of footnotes. Panelists responded to audience members' questions following their presentations. Robert Cordy moderated.
Former law clerks of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed her theory, philosophy and impact on the law. Topics included Justice Ginsburg's opinions on Bush v. Gore and common law federalism, and her use of footnotes. Panelists responded to audience members' questions following their presentations. Robert Cordy moderated.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:54:53 none IS THE LIGHT MOTIF OF THE OPINION. ONE CANNOT AVOID A STRONG SENSE OF DEJAVU ON READING THE ELABORATION...
01:13:36 Unidentified Speaker I CERTAINLY KNOW MORE ABOUT FOOTNOTES THAN I EVER CARED TO KNOW. I WILL SAY, HOWEVER, ONE PIECE OF...
01:14:42 Unidentified Speaker LET'S OPEN THIS UP FOR QUESTIONS OR REACTIONS. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN DISRIB LING THEM DOWN DURING THESE...
01:15:01 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO THANK THE LAW REVIEW FOR ORGANIZEING THIS WELL DONE, VERY SUBSTANTIVE, AND ESPECIALLY TO...
01:15:56 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FIRST. I DON'T THINK JUSTICE GINSBURG HAS WRITTEN IN ANY OF THE DETAINEE CASES....
01:17:59 Unidentified Speaker GOOD WAY TO START. DO WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION HERE? PLEASE.
01:18:04 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS THIS IS DIRECTED TOWARD PROFESSOR BAXTER. I HAD BEEN FOLLOWING PRETTY CLOSELY THE MINNESOTA...
01:18:54 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE LATTER IS LIKELY. THERE IS ALSO LITIGATION THAT'S FARTHER ALONG. WE SHOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT...
01:20:08 Unidentified Speaker I'LL A LITTLE BIAS MY OPINION OF THE CASE, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, THEIR ARGUMENT IS THAT THE STANDARDS...
01:20:43 Unidentified Speaker I ONLY FOLLOWED BY 538.COM WHICH SHALL OF YOU WAY LOOKED AT DURING THE ELECTION TO SEE WHETHER OR...
01:21:05 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY NOT, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP APPEALING IT, AND I WAS THINKING -- IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO...
01:21:11 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S RIGHT.
01:21:12 Unidentified Speaker IT MIGHT GO EVEN HIGHER.
01:21:13 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S RIGHT. MY ONLY COMMENT IS THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CASE TURNS ON THE QUESTION OF MINNESOTA ...
01:21:26 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE PREPARED TO SERVE WHEREVER NECESSARY. WE'RE A GREAT BELIEVER IN STATE CONSTITUTIONS, OF ALL ...
01:21:39 Unidentified Speaker GOOD AFTERNOON, THANK YOU FOR COMING, AT THE EXPENSE OF EMBARRASSING MYSELF FOR COMING IN LATE, I...
01:22:33 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, I THINK IT WAS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE. JUSTICE KENNEDY, RIGHT, IS THE ONE WHO USES NO FOOTNOTES...
01:23:30 Unidentified Speaker SHE'S GOING TO SAY, JAY, I THINK THERE'S A TENTH CATEGORY THAT MAYBE JUSTICE GINSBURG DOESN'T USE,...
01:24:15 Unidentified Speaker AND JUSTICE WHITE, THE KERMUJJEN AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE THAT HE WAS REFUSED TO JOIN THAT PART OF...
01:24:30 Unidentified Speaker WAS IT THE PARTICULAR --
01:24:33 Unidentified Speaker JUSTICE BLACKMON IT TURNED OUT DIDN'T LIKE HIS OWN FOOTNOTE BECAUSE HE LAMENTED HE HAD LEFT OUT MEL...
01:24:42 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S THE DANGER OF MAKING LONG LISTS.
01:24:44 Unidentified Speaker COMING UP WITH NAMES OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN OMITTED, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO THEY WERE, RALPH KEINER...
01:24:58 Unidentified Speaker SHE WOULD NEVER DO THAT AND NEVER HAVE A FOOTNOTE LIKE JUSTICE SUDER'S FOOTNOTE THAT TELLS THE STORY...
01:25:27 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU FOR COMING. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EACH OF YOU. SINCE YOU ARE ALL CLERKS FOR JUSTICE GINSBURG,...
01:25:48 Unidentified Speaker I MENTIONED ONE THING JUST BRIEFLY IN THE TALK, IT WAS THE STRATEGY OF DISSENT WRITING. I HAD WORKED...
01:27:18 Unidentified Speaker BOY, SHE I THINK -- RESTRAINT WOULD BE THE WORD I WOULD USE. I MEAN, SHE'S REALLY -- I THINK PI HER...
01:28:26 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S MUCH SAID THAN I COULD, AND I WOULD AGREE WITH THOSE SENTIMENTS, TOO. IT'S INTERESTING, IF YOU...
01:29:07 Unidentified Speaker OTHER QUESTIONS. PREEMPTION ISN'T BUBBLING UP TO THE TOP OF THE LIST? ACTUALLY I DO HAVE A PREEMPTION...
01:29:27 Unidentified Speaker RIGHT. SO THE QUESTION IS ABOUT WHETHER JUSTICE GINSBURG HAD THE LAST LAUGH BECAUSE AFTER THE MEDICAL...
01:31:09 Unidentified Speaker PLEASE, MORE QUESTIONS, ANYONE, BUT THERE WAS ACTUALLY ANOTHER PREEMPTION CASE DECIDED NOT TOO LONG...
01:31:20 Unidentified Speaker ALTRIA.
01:31:22 Unidentified Speaker ALTRIA, YEAH, AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHO WAS OBJECT WHAT SIDE OF THAT. DO YOU REMEMBER?
01:31:26 Unidentified Speaker -- ON THAT SIDE OF THAT. DO YOU REMEMBER?
01:31:28 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS THE CIGARETTE CASE, RIGHT, SO A GROUP OF SMOKERS SUED PHILIP MORRIS, WHICH HAS BEEN REBRANDED...
01:32:55 Unidentified Speaker MORE QUESTIONS? GOOD, ANOTHER QUESTION. OTHERWISE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DRINK COFFEE.
01:33:02 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS I SHOULD BE MORE -- IF I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THE PERSON THAN THE ACTUAL JURISPRUDENCE, BUT...
01:34:09 Unidentified Speaker JUST BEFORE OUR SESSION GIANNOO NOT THE FORM AT SESSION, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT. IT WAS MENTIONED...
01:35:21 Unidentified Speaker AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING INCONSISTENT WITH THINKING ABOUT YOUR JOB AS A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE...
01:35:59 Unidentified Speaker JUSTICE GINSBURG LOVES JUDGES AND SHE LOVES MEETING JUDGES, SHE TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD TO SEMINARS...
01:36:53 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. ONE QUESTION THAT GOES OFF OF WHAT YOU SAID, RECENTLY I BELIEVE JUSTICE...
01:37:46 Unidentified Speaker NOTHING COMES TO MIND.
01:37:48 Unidentified Speaker SURELY SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE INSTITUTION IS MOST RESPECTED, IS ONE THAT IS RESTRAINED AND MEASURED...
01:38:23 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE STUDYIES CAN -- I CAN'T QUOTE THE NUMBERS BUT THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT JUSTICE GINSBURG,...
01:39:48 Unidentified Speaker YET THERE WAS ALSO BMI.
01:39:49 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS ALSO BMI.
01:39:50 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T KNOW -- EXCEPT FOR BMI. NO, BUT BMI WAS -- I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD --
01:39:56 Unidentified Speaker SO THERE'S A FOOTNOTE HANGING OVER THIS ENTIRE PANEL, RIGHT, OR AN END NOTE HANGING UNDER IT, WHICH...
01:40:29 Unidentified Speaker WE'LL BE SPENDING TIME LATER TODAY TALKING ABOUT THAT. ALL RIGHT.
01:40:37 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT THE LILLY LEDBETTER CASE SO IT MAY NOT BE RELEVANT NOW, BUT MY QUESTION WOULD...
01:41:34 Unidentified Speaker I HAVEN'T READ THE LED BETTER DISSENT RECENTLY BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S INTEMPORATE IN ITS TONE SO ...
01:43:04 Unidentified Speaker IN MY CASE, IT TURNED OUT TO BE 7-1, SHE WROTE THE MANAGEORITY OPINION AND GOT THE CHIEF JUSTICE TO...
01:44:00 Unidentified Speaker ALL RIGHT. SHOULD WE TAKE A BREAK? WHY DON'T WE TAKE A BREAK. I'M SORRY, THERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION....
01:44:10 Unidentified Speaker GO AHEAD, SIR.
01:44:12 Unidentified Speaker I'LL TRY TO KEEP IT SHORT. ALLUDING TO SOMETHING YOU BROUGHT UP TWO ANSWERS AGO, PROFESSOR FRANKLIN,...
01:44:46 Unidentified Speaker SOMETHING IN THE BLOG SHEER, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHERE SOMEBODY WAS CRITICIZE ING HER FOR CREATING...
01:45:20 Unidentified Speaker IT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING STUDY TO SEE HOW MANY CALLS FOR HELP YOU CAN FIND AND SEE WHAT THE PERCENTAGE...
01:45:47 Unidentified Speaker I UNDERSTAND THE CRITICISM CORRECTLY, I THINK IT CENTERS ON AN IMPERCEIVED PROPRIETY FROM DOING THAT...
01:46:26 Unidentified Speaker I THRNG ARE STAFFERS IN THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES THAT READ OPINIONS AND DISSENTS IN ORDER TO...
01:46:40 Unidentified Speaker IT'S QUITE INTERESTING. IN ONE OF THE READINGS, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH OF THE PIECES I WAS LOOKING...
01:48:09 Unidentified Speaker WHEN ARE WE GOING TO RECONVENE. 3:00.
01:48:13 Unidentified Speaker

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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