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In her 1993 U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearing, Ruth Bader Ginsburg vowed she would make “no hints, no forecasts, no previews” on issues that might face the Court. But she did respond to some questions about past high court rulings, agreeing, for example, with the decision in Moore v. East Cleveland that a housing ordinance’s definition of “family,” which excluded a grandmother living with her son and two grandsons, violated the grandmother’s due process rights.
