WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has ties with a women's rights advocacy group, it was reported Thursday.
Ginsberg has lent her name and presence to a lecture series co-sponsored by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, an advocacy group that often argues before the high court in support of women's rights that the justice champions, the Los Angeles Times said.
She gave opening remarks for the fourth installment in the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture Series on Women and the Law. Two weeks earlier, she had voted in a medical screening case, taking the side promoted by the legal defense fund in its friend-of-the-court brief.
Ginsburg was a member of the board of the legal defense fund for a brief time in the 1970s.
Earlier, fellow Justice Antonin Scalia was reported to have gone hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney soon after the Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal involving Cheney's energy policy task force.
