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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pictured arriving for President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, was so strong in her dissent in Ricci v. DeStefano that she read it from the bench, something she has done only a handful of...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pictured arriving for President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, was so strong in her dissent in Ricci v. DeStefano that she read it from the bench, something she has done only a handful of times in her over 15 years on the Court.

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