Supreme Court Justices

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, born in 1933, American jurist and professor of law, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, who has worked toward ending institutionalized discrimination against women. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1933. She attended Cornell University and the law schools at Harvard and Columbia universities. Despite graduating from Columbia at the top of her class, she encountered difficulties in finding a job in a traditionally male profession. In 1959 she secured …

…in a more conservative direction. In 1990 Rehnquist voted against the Supreme Court decision that struck down a federal law prohibiting the burning of the American flag. In 1996 he dissented in Romer v. Evans, in which the Court reversed a Colorado constitutional change aimed at curbing civil rights protections for homosexuals. Rehnquist sided with the majority in Bush v. Gore in 2000, the 5-4 Court decision that made George W. Bush the president of the United States.