article_snippet.sent: the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken - and acted - in a way which suggests Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg strong supporting for legalizing same sex marriage .
article_snippet.sent: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has already made up Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mind about gay marriage, a report has claimed, ahead of a landmark the Supreme Court hearing which could legalize the practice nationwide.
article_snippet.sent: The famously liberal justice, who is 82, will be part of a decision which begins hearing arguments tomorrow on whether states are allowed to ban same-sex unions and refuse to recognize those made in other states.
article_snippet.sent: Ginsburg, who has sat on the Supreme Court since 1993, has been unusually open about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opinions ahead of the cases.
article_snippet.sent: Politics, cited interviews in which Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has referred to the American public becoming more accepting of gay rights in general - and has even officiated at same-sex ceremonies.
article_snippet.sent: Ahead of the first such ceremony, held in Washington, D.C.,  in August 2013, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Washington Post that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg understood the symbolic implications of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg involvement.
article_snippet.sent: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the wedding, of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg friend Michael M. Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center, to economist John Roberts, would 'be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.'
article_snippet.sent: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get the chance to make Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg views known in the upcoming case of Obergefell v. Hodges, for which arguments will be heard from Tuesday and a decision is expected this summer.
article_snippet.sent: In an interview with Bloomberg earlier this year, Ginsburg insisted that 'it would not take a large adjustment' for Americans to accept gay marriage across the board, and that the country has become far more accepting.
article_snippet.sent: Gay marriage opponents have said that Ginsburg previous actions and public statements go so far as to make Ginsburg unfit to hear the case.
article_snippet.sent: Both the National Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association, which oppose gay marriage, have demanded that Ginsburg remove Ginsburg from the case because Ginsburg officiated over the ceremony.
article_snippet.sent: They made the same demand of Justice Elena Kagan, another liberal justice, who has officiated a ceremony as well.
article_snippet.sent: If both justices were to agree both justices would leave the court two liberals down and unlikely to side with the legalization.
article_snippet.sent: However, according to legal scholars, neither has done anything wrong because the earlier court decision had already vindicated same-sex marriages in states which had legalized legal scholars.
highlights_snippet.sent: Liberal champion, 82, has spoken widely about gay rights .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ginsburg even officiated at a same-sex ceremony in August 2013 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Opponents have said it makes Ginsburg unfit to rule on Case .
  