Legislative history can be messy, some of it is not reliable, but some of it is more reliable than not. She sees a need to remove the stigma from abortion. In … Only lately has she risen to genuine stardom, easily and giddily recognized by lawyers and nonlawyers alike.
If we care about that, she said, we should make abortion our issue.Melling asked us to join her “team.” Importantly, she reminded us that the “team” includes men and women. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees. There has been a lot of ink spilled on how statutes should be interpreted.
Recently, at an event at Columbia University, hundreds of women gave her a standing ovation as she walked out to the chorus of Biggie’s “Notorious B.I.G.” These days we rarely go out without people—mostly women—asking to take a picture or telling her they admire her. She is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School.She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center For Law, Media and the Arts. But when opinions are not high profile, Katzmann argued, the congressional committees are seemingly unaware of their existence.Professor Huang then opened the floor to questions, and students asked an array of interesting questions, from how the Judge approaches ambiguity in a statute, to the reliability of legislative history as a tool of statutory interpretation. Jane Carol Ginsburg (born July 21, 1955) is an American attorney. She further argued that the Court is a lot less likely to intervene if it thinks that the public “isn’t there” on this issue.Judge Katzmann responded very quickly: they do care. My time in law school dovetailed with the explosion of Bubbie’s public profile.
But, more importantly, her hope comes from the breaking of silence about abortion.
Yes, she wanted to spend time together, but I’m sure it was also motivated by a desire to show me that supportive spaces dedicated to the academic and social advancement of women existed. If silence on the issue of abortion persists, there is no way to turn around the political stigma and to turn the little changes that are happening into big, needed changes.
(I was enchanted—and later transferred to an all-girls school.)
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In the confirmation hearings of the past seven Supreme Court justices, they are all asked what their view of legislative history is. The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. It’s equally strange and touching for me to see a young woman, probably my age, ask Bubbie if she can give her a hug.I realize now that my birthday party wasn’t held there to show off or because the Court’s such an impressive space; it was because she wanted me to know, from the age of three, that my grandmother, my Bubbie, worked there, and that I shouldn’t consider anything out of my reach.To me this perfectly encapsulates Bubbie’s approach to her role on the Supreme Court: She doesn’t write to promote her profile or to advance her interests; she writes to “get (and hold) the court,” meaning, to respond to her colleagues’ concerns.
Sometimes, those opinions and even their accompanying dissents are a direct call to action for Congress, like in the instance of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.: Justice Ginsburg’s forceful dissent in that case is often credited as the catalyst for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, passed through Congress just two years later. Clara Simone Spera (Reigstration# 5590229) is an attorney registered with New York State, Office of Court Administration. The next registration is in Oct 2020. Melling implored us to consider that it should matter to us whether or not we can direct our own futures. Another idea is that when new members of Congress get elected, they could sit with judges and discuss these issues.