Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Reading of the Fair Housing Act: An Interpretive Approach Aligned with Legislative Policy

Andrea McArdle writes a comment for the Oxford Human Rights Hub that details Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s meaningful body of work in fair housing cases. McArdle notes the impact of Ginsburg’s record interpreting the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) broadly framed policy aims to promote access to housing and reflects that the loss of her influential, policy-aligned perspective leaves the Court’s interpretive predilections, and the prospects for fair housing plaintiffs, far less certain.