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=Appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court- 1993=

Overview
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton with the support of Republican Judiciary Chairman Senator Orrin Hatch in 1993. She is the second female Justice to Sandra Day O'Connor being the firs, and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Court. Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle. She served as a professor at Rutgers School of Law Newark and Columbia Law School. President Jimmy Carter appointed Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on April 14, 1980, to the seat of recently deceased judge Harold Leventhal. She served there for thirteen years, until joining the Supreme Court.

Central Issue
President Bill Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on June 14, 1993, to fill the seat vacated by retiring Justice Byron White. Ginsburg was recommended to Clinton by then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. During her testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the confirmation hearings, she refused to answer questions regarding her personal views on most issues as a Supreme Court Justice. A number of Senators on the committee came away frustrated, with unanswered questions about how Ginsburg planned to make the transition from an advocate for causes she personally held dear, to a justice on the Supreme Court, the highest court in America. Despite this, Ginsburg refused to discuss her beliefs about the limits and proper role of law, saying, "Were I to rehearse here what I would say and how I would reason on such questions, I would act injudiciously". Although Ginsburg has consistently supported abortion rights and joined in the Court's opinion striking down Nebraska's partial-birth abortion law in Stenberg v. Carhart she has criticized the Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade. She discussed her views on abortion rights and sexual equality in a 2009 New York Times interview, in which she said regarding abortion that "the basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman."

Conclusion
Much of the legal career that earned Ginsburg's appointment to the Court involved sex discrimination cases. She argued six such cases before the Supreme Court, winning five, each significantly advancing women's legal rights. Ginsburg opposed laws that treated men and women differently, even if these laws benefited women: “It is not //women's// liberation,” she once explained, “it is women's //and men's// liberation” that she was after.