Thread by @ZoeTillman

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is at @GeorgetownLaw speaking to first-year law students – she received a standing ovation when she entered the room #SCOTUS

The first part of Ginsburg's remarks involved summarizing major cases of note from last term and ones getting attention going into the new term: "I can safely predict that the new term will have a fair share of closely-watched cases and I look forward to the challenges ahead."

Ginsburg was asked, given her friendship with the late justice Antonin Scalia, what advice she has for bridging partisan divides: She said the recent divisions are "not serving our country well."

"Someday we will get back to the way it should be..." (cont'd)

(cont'd) "...I think it will take courageous people who care about the health and welfare of the country on both sides of the aisle to say enough of this dysfunction, let’s do the job we were elected to do to govern the United States."

Asked what she'd add to the US Constitution, she replied an Equal Rights Amendment (an answer she's given before). She took out a copy of the Constitution, earning applause, and said she couldn't point to something that explicitly said men/women are of equal stature under the law

And that's a wrap on RBG's appearance today at Georgetown Law — no discussion of her recent cancer scare (she was moving around largely on her own, an aide occasionally offered an arm as she walked on/off the stage). She got a rousing standing ovation on the way out