Read through the following questions that are similar to those Justice Ginsburg was asked to respond to in writing before her nomination hearing. Based on your research, collect related information that gives insight into the current nominee's background.
I. Biographical Information
- Education: List each college and law school you have attended, including dates of attendance, degrees received and dates degrees were granted.
- Employment record: List (by year) all governmental agencies, businesses or profesional corporations, companies, firms, or other enterprises, partnerships, institutions, and organizations, nonprofit or otherwise, with which you are or have been connected as an officer, director, partner, proprietor, or employee.
- Writings and Speeches: (a) List the titles, publishers, and dates of books, articles, reports, letters to the editor, editorial pieces, or other published material you have written or edited. Please supply one copy of all published material to the Committee.
- Citations: Please provide: (a) Citations for all opinions you have written (including concurrences and dissents).
II. Financial Data and Conflict of Interest (Public)
- List sources and amounts of all income received during the calendar year preceding your nomination and for the current calendar year, including any salaries, fees, dividends, interest, gifts, rents, royalties, patents, honoraria, and other items of $500 or more.
- Have you ever held a position or played a role in a political campaign? If so, please identify the particulars of the campaign, including the candidate, dates of the campaign, your title and responsibilities.
- The American Bar Association's commentary to its Code of Judicial Conduct states that it is inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization that . . . discriminates on the basis of race, sex, or religion. Please list all business clubs, social clubs or fraternal organizations to which you belong or have belonged since graduating from law school . . . .
- Has anyone involved in the process of selecting you as a judicial nominee (including, but not limited to a member of the White House staff, the Justice Department, or the Senate or its staff) discussed with you any specific case, legal issue or question in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as seeking any…assurances concerning your position on such case, issue, or question? If so, please explain fully.
- Please discuss your views on the role of the judiciary in our governmental system and the . . . criticism involving "judicial activism."
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