Justice Ginsburg warns against apathy with a word to the wise

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:52:17 -0500
From: "Eric M. Freedman" <lawemf () Mail1 Hofstra edu>
Subject: Word to Wise



January 30, 2004






Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:18 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday 
that people concerned about losing freedom to government anti-terrorism 
efforts should speak out.

The Supreme Court is taking up several terror-related cases this spring, 
including challenges to the government detention of terror suspects without 
legal rights.

Ginsburg, speaking to a group of women's rights lawyers, was asked if 
people's rights were in danger.

``On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if 
the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to overweigh the 
other,'' she said.

That would change, Ginsburg said, ``if people come forward and say we are 
proud to live in the USA, a land that has been more free, and we want to 
keep it that way.''

Ginsburg, who argued women's rights cases at the Supreme Court several 
decades before former President Clinton named her to the court in 1993, 
said ``an active public'' made the difference in the victories of feminism.

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