Ruth Bader Ginsburg, born Joan Ruth Bader, was born in New York, New York on March 15, 1933. She was the daughter of Russian immigrants Nathan and Celia Bader. Her father owned a small clothing shop while her mother cared for Ginsburg and her older sister, who died of meningitis at age 6. Her mother took a vested interest in Ginsburg’s education. While Ruth was in school, her mother noticed many of the girls in her class were also named Joan, so she suggested that her daughter be called Ruth instead. At age 15, Ginsburg graduated from high school. Her mother died before she could see her graduate high school. Ginsburg met her husband Martin while she was attending Cornell University her freshman year.…
Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 11, 1936. He married Maureen Macarthy who with he had nine children Ann Forest, Eugene, Catherine Elisabeth, John Francis, Matthew, Margaret Jane, Christopher James, Paul David and Mary Clare. Antonin Scalia received his associate bachelors from Georgetown University and his Literally Legum Baccalaureus at Harvard Law School.…
Elena Eduwiges Sotomayor is one of those people who change the lives of everyone they meet without ever consciously trying to do so. At only the age of ten, she is already becoming a beautiful young lady both inside and out. Her naturally light brown skin tans beautifully in the summer, always without burning. It becomes more of a light caramel color with every passing year and lightens to a beautiful extra-creamy coffee color when the weather cools down. Dirty blonde hair pieced together from every color imaginable frames the chocolate brown eyes that she hides behind the blue-violet pair of glasses perched atop her wide, pointed nose. Elena combines all of this with her strong personality and selfless desire to help anyone around her in…
He went on to become Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, then 8 years later he was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals by Ronald Regan. During Regan’s presidency, Scalia was appointed, and confirmed by the senate to be one of the Associate Justices on the Supreme Court (Reilly, 2016). Antonin Scalia earned his place on the Supreme Court through hard work, and dedication to the Judicial System throughout his career. Scalia’s voice will never be forgotten because he remained to have a strong conservative view throughout his career, and always vocalized his opinions on issues brought forth in the…
Condoleezza Rice was born on a November 14, 1954, Birmingham, Alabama. Condi was born as the only child of Angeline and John Wesley Jr. Angeline (Condi’s Mother) was a teacher, while John (Condi’s father) was a counselor working at the same school Angeline did. Mid-1980’s – Rice went to a physical in Washington D.C., became director of the National Secretary Council. Rice grew up surrounded by Racism in the south, but went on to becoming the first woman and first African-American and graduated in Stanford University. Condi was appointed national secretary advisor by President George W. Bush, and she is the first black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State. Condoleezza had a hard time trusting people, the way she overcame that challenge is that she started being around them more and…
LAFD was founded in late 19 century and more than 90% of the firefighters were men. By 1996, Fire Chief Bamattre was hired by city mayor with intentions to increase the number of minorities and women in the LAFD. In 2007, there were only 27 women actually fighting fires in Los Angeles. According to the case, one main issue coming follow the event, gender discrimination.…
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Columbia Law School, Cornell University, and Harvard Law School graduate, became the second woman to ever be given a position in the Supreme Court. Born into a low income family in Brooklyn, New York on March 15, 1933, Ginsburg was frequently exposed to gender discrimination throughout her college years—as there were “only 8 other females in a class of 500 students” at Harvard Law—as well as in the work force. This ultimately pushed her to fight for gender equality. She began her career as a clerk and then teacher, becoming Columbia University’s first tenured teacher who was a woman. Following this, she took on several projects in which she fought for the rights of woman in front of the Supreme Court of the United…
Magtadt defines liberals has typically holding civil rights close to heart. They are often the primary defenders of individuals or groups that they see as victims of past discrimination, such as racial minorities, women and the poor (p. 37, 2015). Although identifying as independent she has quite often voted along with the liberal side of the Supreme Court. However, it can be said that unlike other liberals Sotomayor takes a more case-by-case approach. Sotomayor has shown a willingness to side with conservative in cases pertaining to criminal law, no doubt an influence of her time as prosecutor. For example, in Wetzel v. Lambert back in February 2010, she sided with the conservative bloc’s majority opinion to reinstituting a convict’s death…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a hard life growing up. Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn,New York March 15,1933.Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993.The only good thing she had was her mother;she died the day before her high school graduation.Ginsburg kept going into her education and lead ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Ginsburg impacted society by making Civil Rights, Academic success true and possible even for a woman and with her personal struggle she went far from how she was raised in low-income.…
The first woman of the US Supreme Court was Sandra Day O’Connor. She was an incredible woman who fought for the rights that women have today. “On July 7th President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first women of the US Supreme Court” (www.biography.com). She was considered to be a modern conservative, she also served for 24 years (www.biography.com). At a very young age she showed high levels of intelligence. “She retired in 2006” (www.biography.com). She was a state assistant. (www.biography.com). The size of the court was always decided by congress.…
Ruth was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1933. Ruth graduated from Columbia Law School and then went on to become a staunch courtroom advocator for the fair treatment of women. In 1980 she was then appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, was then in 1993 was then appointed to the supreme court by President Clinton. Ruth was the second daughter born of Nathan and Celia Bader. She grew up in a low income family who just made enough to get by. Her mother was a huge influence on her life, Celia never attended college but that never despaired…
A time when Sonia Sotomayor was determined to give back to her community was when she had to give her speech during her speech competition. She started by talking about the killing of Kiddie Jenaveys and how it took place. After she got off work from her job at a bar late at night around three in the morning, getting home to her apartments in the queens, she parked her car in a nearby parking lot walking through an alley towards her apartment when a stranger appeared in her shadow and frightened her so she ran and he caught up to her and stabbed her in the back as she screamed and cried for help. Several neighbors heard her cries and her struggle as Winston Mosley stabbed her. The windows were shut due to the cold weather, but kiddie kept screaming for help as he stabbed her repeatedly and beat her to shut up and finely raped her. When it was all over the neighbors called the police and they arrived minutes after but Mosley got away that night later caught for a burglary charge and now is faced with life in prison.…
We have recently been assigned to write a letter to a congressmen on a currently used program that dates back to the New Deal, we needed to explain our views on the changes that should or shouldn’t be made to the program of our preference. The program I chose was the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, it focuses on providing reasonable communication regulation throughout the United States by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. My opinion on the FCC was positive, I believe it is a great program that will help increase communication in the U.S. for those who did not have access to it prior to being helped. With our technology advancing in speed and structure, it is hard to keep updated on the changes, for some it seems impossible to catch up with all the new innovations that are introduced daily. My letter was sent to Barbara Boxer, she is a democrat and the junior United States senator from California, the reason I chose her was because she was a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which focuses on matters relating to the environment and infrastructure. She has had experience working…
Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland July 2, 1908 and he grew up in a prosperous home in Baltimore also. Father William Marshall worked as a steward in a all white country club. Mother Norma Marshall worked as a teacher for kindergarteners and his grandfather was a slave who gained freedom from escaping the South during the Civil War. He became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court, he was in the Civil Rights Activist, a judge & lawyer. He went to Colored High and Training school later called Frederick Douglass high school, Lincoln University, and Howard University school of Law. He got interested into law because of his father and brother having arguments at the dinner table when their dad would come back home…
On June 29, 2009, the last day of the United States Supreme Court’s 2008–09 term, the Court rendered the much anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, 129 S. Ct. 2658, 174 L. Ed. 2d 490 (2009). Ricci was quickly dubbed the “white firefighter’s case” by many, however, the case involved much more than the firefighters’ asserted right to a promotion.…