WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is becoming more vocal in her dissenting votes involving women's issues.
On Tuesday, Ginsburg made the unusual move for the second time in the past six weeks of reading her dissent from the bench in a case that was struck down 5-4 involving a woman's claim to back pay based on pay discrimination, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The court ruled an Alabama woman was entitled to damages beginning from when she filed her suit and not for her entire 19-year career.
Ginsburg, a former feminist legal activist who helped establish women's legal rights, was critical of the court's ruling, "In our view, the court does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination," she said.
Ginsburg also read her dissent aloud over the same five-justice majority for upholding the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and called for Congress to correct what she sees as the court's mistake, the Post said.
