Mourning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg:
washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…
Before her distinguished career as a jurist, the legal pioneer led a team of @ACLU lawyers that established our constitutional guarantee of equal protection applied to women.
RIP, RBG.
Your legacy & light lives on.
I stopped by the Supreme Court to pay my respects to Justice Ginsberg & see how she was being honored & remembered, but kept my distance. There are hundreds of Washingtonians quietly moving around the plaza, mostly masked, reading messages on a cool, crisp fall day.
“Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for, & helped to constitutionalize the most hard-fought and least-appreciated revolution in modern American history: the emancipation of women.”-Jill Lepore newyorker.com/news/postscrip…
“A century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pioneering career as a scholar, advocate, and judge stands as a monument to the power of dissent.”-Jill Lepore newyorker.com/news/postscrip…
“‘What’s the difference between a bookkeeper in the garment district & a Supreme Court justice? One generation.’” My own life bears witness, comparing the opportunities open to my mother & those open to me. The change is exhilarating, & it’s permanent“-RBG theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I took my daughter down to the Supreme Court this afternoon to see how our fellow Americans were remembering her & learn more about the woman who inspired this outpouring of emotion. We talked about how her work making “equal justice before law” a reality for all of our neighbors
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