Another accounting of Justice Ginsburg’s criminal justice legacy
I receive via email from Arizona State College of Law’s Academy for Justice a terrific review (with links) of some of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg major work in criminal justice cases during her tenure on the Court, as well as some leading scholarship discussing this work. I got permission to reprint this collection here, so:
Some of Justice Ginsburg’s Criminal Justice Opinions:
- Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. ___ (2019) (Excessive Fines Clause)
- Perry v. New Hampshire, 565 U.S. 228 (2012) (eyewitness identifications)
- Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647 (2011) (Confrontation Clause)
- Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010) (Honest Services Fraud Statute)
- Florida v. Powell, 559 U.S. 50 (2010) (Miranda warnings)
- Kimbrough v. United States, 552 U.S. 85 (2007) (sentencing for crack vs. powder cocaine)
- Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002) (jury trial right and capital punishment)
- Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002) (right to counsel)
- Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266 (2000) (Terry stops)
- Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305 (1997) (drug testing for political candidates)
Some Scholarship Addressing Justice Ginsburg’s Contributions
- Sidney Harring & Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, Scrupulous in Applying the Law: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Capital Punishment, 7 N.Y. CITY L. REV. 241 (2004).
- Christopher Slobogin, Justice Ginsburg’s Gradualism in Criminal Procedure, 70 OHIO ST. L.J. 867 (2009).
- Carol S. Steiker, Raising the Bar: Maples v. Thomas and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, 127 HARV. L. REV. 468 (2013).
- Lisa Kern Griffin, Barriers to Entry and Justice Ginsburg’s Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Scott Dodson ed., 2015).
- Honest Services Fraud: Covered Offenses, 124 HARV. L. REV. 360 (2010).
UPDATE: The Marshall Project has this extended new piece with lots of quote from criminal justice advocates and scholars under this full headline “RBG’s Mixed Record on Race and Criminal Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a revered feminist icon. Her legacy on issues such as prisoners’ rights, capital punishment, racial justice and tribal sovereignty has been less examined.”