Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 20, 2011
Ginsburg offers glimpse of life on U.S. Supreme Court
The death penalty was one of many topics U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg touched on during a lively discussion at UC Hastings ranging from her early career at the ACLU to life with her late husband.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO Death penalty decisions are the hardest part of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's job, she told students at UC Hastings College of the Law Thursday, disclosing the strain of spending much of that day on the phone with colleagues and clerks deciding on a last-minute stay of a Texas man's execution.
"How many calls I had today on that," she exclai...
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