The issue focused on federal enforcement of civil rights laws in civil rights cases. Justice Anthony Kennedy asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg if she thought federal enforcement of civil rights laws had become so rigid that federal courts would no longer treat civil rights cases as civil rights cases. Justice Ginsburg responded that federal courts had become so rigid that civil rights cases had become civil rights cases. Justice Kennedy asked Justice Ginsburg if she thought federal enforcement of civil rights laws had become so rigid that federal courts would no longer treat civil rights cases