Box 87131 San Diego, CA 92138-7131 Telephone: (619) 398-4187 Z GABRIEL ARKLES* (NY SBN 4391918) (garkles@aclu.org) CLARA SPERA* (NY SBN 5590229) (cspera@aclu.org) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10014 Telephone: (212) 549-2569 It’s equally strange and touching for me to see a young woman, probably my age, ask Bubbie if she can give her a hug.I realize now that my birthday party wasn’t held there to show off or because the Court’s such an impressive space; it was because she wanted me to know, from the age of three, that my grandmother, my Bubbie, worked there, and that I shouldn’t consider anything out of my reach.To me this perfectly encapsulates Bubbie’s approach to her role on the Supreme Court: She doesn’t write to promote her profile or to advance her interests; she writes to “get (and hold) the court,” meaning, to respond to her colleagues’ concerns. The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Most individuals on the judiciary don’t fully understand the legislative process – “it’s not their world.”So why should young lawyers of our generation make abortion “our” issue? There was a lively exchange between the students and Judge Katzmann.Melling divided her talk into four intertwined sections: (1) Challenges to access to abortion; (2) What troubles her most; (3) Reasons for passion; (4) Reasons for hope.She asked students to step up on this issue, break the silence and break down the stigmata that surround abortion. Topics ruth bader ginsburg Notorious RBG. But when opinions are not high profile, Katzmann argued, the congressional committees are seemingly unaware of their existence.Professor Huang then opened the floor to questions, and students asked an array of interesting questions, from how the Judge approaches ambiguity in a statute, to the reliability of legislative history as a tool of statutory interpretation. Previously, I thought that winning, and only on my own terms, was the path to success (just ask my former debate partners).
If we care about that, she said, we should make abortion our issue.Melling asked us to join her “team.” Importantly, she reminded us that the “team” includes men and women. Especially when there are other areas of policy and law that are making tremendous and tangible gains that we are observing year after year, like the LGBT movement?
understanding in a very practical way. Purposivists are also textualists, when the meaning of a statute is pristine and plain on its face.