[Fulton County [Ga.] Daily Report] Jonathan Ringel - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has expressed admiration toward how her counterparts in Israel deal with suspected terrorists. Speaking at an Atlanta synagogue Sunday, Ginsburg noted that the former president of Israel's high court, Aharon Barak, had said that while the U.S. had its Sep. 11, "we've had our 9/12, our 9/13 and so on. And yet we have strived mightily to remember what we stand for as a nation." Ginsburg said that when the Israeli justices were asked if authorities could torture someone who knew when and where a bomb would go off, "The answer of the Supreme Court of Israel was unequivocal: torture never." She then mentioned an article in that day's Atlanta newspaper "about how the courts in Israel have adhered to basic fairness and due process even dealing with people who would terminate the existence of the State of Israel."
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