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I’m somewhat doubtful that a link will show up, so I’m just going to post it….
I’m just surmising, but I think Ginsburg is firing a salvo over the bows of at least four fellow justices while at the same time warning Americans about the either/or option….
Those who prefer security over freedom will
enjoy neither. – Ben Franklin
NEW YORK (AP)--Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that
people concerned about losing freedom to government antiterrorism 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.
Ginsburg, now 70 and one of the more liberal justices, won five of the six
Supreme Court cases she argued. She was reunited Thursday with some of the
clients she represented during an event held in her honor at the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York.
"She was calling to our attention that work in women's rights, civil rights is
under threat," said Lisalyn Jacobs, who handles government relations for the
National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, which
co-sponsored the event.
The Bush administration has been criticized by civil libertarians for some of
its terror-fighting strategy, including the detentions of hundreds of foreigners
at a military prison in Cuba and some U.S. citizens in America.
They are being held without charges or access to attorneys, something the
government maintains is necessary for national security.
In April the Supreme Court will consider cases involving detainees in Cuba and
America.
The court has refused to take up other cases stemming from the government's
response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the handling of
immigrants swept up in the investigation.
01-29-04 2010ET(AP-DJ-01-30-04 0110GMT)
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