2009-05-05 Ginsburg says Court needs another woman

2009-05-05 Joan Biskupic USA Today \US Supreme Court\Ruth Bader Ginsburg http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-05-05-ruthginsburg_N.htm Ginsburg: Court needs another woman Ginsburg says Court needs another woman  Three years after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor left the Supreme Court, the impact of having only one woman on the nation's highest bench has become particularly clear to that woman — Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Her status as the court's lone woman was especially poignant during a recent case involving a 13-year-old girl who had been strip-searched by Arizona school officials looking for drugs. During oral arguments, some other justices minimized the girl's lasting humiliation, but Ginsburg stood out in her concern for the teenager.

"They have never been a 13-year-old girl," she told USA TODAY later when asked about her colleagues' comments during the arguments. "It's a very sensitive age for a girl. I didn't think that my colleagues, some of them, quite understood."

&ldquo;Three years after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor left the Supreme Court, the impact of having only one woman on the nation's highest bench has become particularly clear to that woman — Ruth Bader Ginsburg.&rdquo;   