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Item Merrick Garland(Ballotpedia, 2021) BallotpediaAn encyclopedia article detailing the judicial career of Merrick Garland, his nomination to the United States Supreme Court by President Barack Obama and his nomination to be General by President Joe Biden. The article also discusses a significant 2013 ruling delivered by Garland while he sat on the DC Circuit. Included in the article also is a video of an address Garland gave to the Harvard Law School class of 2019.Click on the URI above to read the article. Click on the link below to see an article in the Washington Examiner about Garland's confirmation hearing for Attorney Genral before the Senate Judiciary Committee.Item Merrick Garland chokes up discussing family's fleeing of anti-Semitism(The Washington Examiner, 2021-02-22) Brest, MikeAn article discussing the confirmation hearings before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate for Merrick Garland. Garland was President Joe Biden's nominee for the position of Attorney General. It notes Garland's emotional recounting of how his grandparents fled to the United States to escape antisemitic persecution in Eastern Europe. This was in response to a question by Senator Cory Booker. The video of this interaction is included in the article. Click on the URI above to read the article. See also our link to an entry in the political encyclopedia, Ballotpedia, detailing Merrick Garland's judicial career and nominations to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama and later his nomination to be Attorney General by President Joe Biden.Item Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Great Equalizer(The New Yorker, 2020-09-18) Lepore, JillThis obituary considers the noteworthy career of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died on September 18, 2020, after serving on the Supreme Court for 27 years. Ginsberg is most noted for her role in advancing gender equality, but her broad commitment to equality under the law was evidenced by her sharp dissent when the majority of the Court voted to weaken the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Lepoore quotes from Ginsberg's dissenting opinion, “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes, is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Lepore credits her with having done more than any other single person, aside from Thurgood Marshall, to promote the cause of equality under the law. Click on the link above to read the article.Item The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella(Supreme Court of Canada, 2020-07-06) Supreme Court of CanadaRosalie Silberman Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004 by then Prime Minister Paul Martin. Born in 1946 in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, she has the distinction of being the first Jewish woman and the first refugee appointed to the Court. The entry about Abella on the Web Site of the Supreme Court of Canada provides some biographical information about her as well as information about her distinguished career. Click on the link above to see the entry.Item Justice Breyer Web Discussion with Harvard Hillel(C-Span, 2020-06-15) Breyer, Stephen; Gillis, Talia; Passow, DaniA C-Span interview with the Jewish American Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer . At approximately the 21 minute mark he is asked about how his Jewish background relates to his work. Click on the link above to access the interview.Item Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter 1882-1965(Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1965) Lumbard, J. EdwardAcceptance Speech on Behalf of Justice Frankfurter upon receiving National District Attorneys Association's 1964 Furtherance of Justice Award. The speech presents some of the biographical highlights of this American Jewish Supreme Court justice, as well as discussing his judicial philosophy, Click on the icon below to access a pdf copy of the speech.Item Our Father, In Law(The Forward, 2009-12-16) Dicker, Ron“ 'The work that Bill did with the outcasts, the unpopular and the disenfranchised was to be a good Jew, continuing the Jewish tradition of standing up for the underdog,' Emily Kunstler said. The Kunstler daughters have made a new documentary about their father, “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,” capturing his heroism and contradictions through news footage, home movies and personal reflection." Click on the link above to read the rest of this article about this famous and controversial civil rights lawyer,Item Sexual Equality Under the Fourteenth and Equal Rights Amendments(Washington University Law Review, 1979-01) Ginsburg, Ruth BaderAn article written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Washington University Law Review. The article discusses t he proposed Equal Rights Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment in terms of the "two rubrics under which gender-based classifications in the law might be tested." Click on the icon to read the article.Item Some Reflections on the Feminist Legal Thought of the 1970' s(University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989) Ginsburg, Ruth Bader; Flagg, BarbaraAn article coauthored by Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Barbara Flagg on feminist legal thought in the 1970s. The article was written before Justice Ginsberg became a member of the United States Supreme Court. Click on the icon below to access the article.Item The Practice(New York Times, 2008-09-25) Dershowitz, Alan M.In this book review of a biography of Louis Brandeis, Alan Dershowitz reviews the achievements of the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. Click on the link above to access.Item Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It(Frederick A Stokes Company, 1914-03) Brandeis, Louis DA famous collection of essays by Louis D Brandeis, who was the first Jewish Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Click on the icon below to access a pdf version of the book. Keep in mind there are many blank pages before you reach the actual text.Item A Climb Marked by Confidence and Canniness(New York Times, 2010-05-10) Stollberg, Sheryl Gay; Seelye, Katharine Q.; Foderaro, Lisa W.An article in the New York Times discussing the background, and political and legal views of Elena Kagan. Click on the link above to read the article.Item Elena Kagan(Oyez, 2017) OyezA piece in Oyez describing Elena Kagan, her background, education and legal approach. Provides links to information about cases she had previously argued before the Supreme Court. Click on the link to read the article.Item Justice Ginsburg and the Price of Equality(New York Times, 2017-06-22) Greenhouse, LindaAn o-ed piece in the New York Times about a Supreme Court decision which illustrates how Justice Ginsburg meticulously follows the logic of her judicial philosophy. Click on the link above to read the article.Item Ruth Bader Ginsbug(Oyez, 2017) OyezBiographical article about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her persistence in the face of adversity and her performance on the Supreme Court. Also provides links to the cases she argued before the Supreme Court prior to her appointment as a Supreme Court Justice. Click on the link above to read the article.Item Ruth Bader Ginsburg(Jewish Women's Archive, 2009-03-01) Halberstam, MalvinaAn article about Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the Jewish Women's Archive, from Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.. Click on the link above to read the article.