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RBG
May 28, 2018 18:42:20 GMT
Post by mikef6 on May 28, 2018 18:42:20 GMT
RBG / Julie Cohen and Betsy West (2018). This effective and inspiring biography on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will thrill you, chill you, and fulfill you. A hard worker from her early years growing up in Brooklyn to Harvard and Columbia law schools (during a time when few women were permitted to enroll) to arguing cases before SCOTUS to being a Justice herself. The Supreme Court cases she represented before the court were almost always on behalf of women’s rights (although one case changed a major Social Security rule that only applied to women). She faced an uphill battle because in the 1970s judges were not even aware that there was discrimination against women in the first place. Always soft-spoken (even if her words were challenging), she tended to win her cases, many of which have changed the United States forever. Strangely, today at 85 years old and twice a cancer survivor, she has become a hero of young people and a pop culture icon. Don’t miss this one. I almost forgot to mention Ginsburg’s amazing and inexplicable close friendship with her exact opposite on the Supreme Court, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. A close colleague of Ginsburg’s from their days bringing civil rights law suite commented, “Ruth is much better than me at compartmentalizing. None of my friends is a right-wing nut case.” Ruth Bader
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