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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRuth Bader Ginsburg
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The Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can project the daunting stillness of a seated monarch, Jeffrey Toobin writes in his Profile of Ginsburg this week. She is tinyabout five feet tall and a hundred poundsand her face at rest conveys a pursed-lipped skepticism. She dresses with a dowagers elegance, often in exotic shifts acquired on her travels around the world; she sometimes wears long gloves indoors. A groundbreaking litigator for womens rights before being appointed to the bench, Ginsburg has worn many aspects in her eighty years. Here are photographs of Ginsburg as a girl in Brooklyn, as a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers), as a young mother, and as an advocate whose greatest legacy, Toobin argues, may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Courtand won. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/W0Hkz5
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MrScorpio
May 2013
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Control-Z
(15,682 posts)1. If you're asking me to be impressed,
I am!! Big K&R
Awknid
(381 posts)2. She makes me so proud
elleng
(130,732 posts)3. LOVE her!
Ginsburg.
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)4. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg~
greatest legacy, Toobin argues, may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Courtand won.
An extraordinary woman!
Thank you for posting this, MrScorpio.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)5. Wow! Had no idea she was so beautiful when she was younger
That first photo really shocked me, perhaps because my whole lifetime I have seen her as a grandmotherly figure. She has sat on the SCOTUS for most of my political consciousness.
She has been an outstanding justice, almost always siding with a position that helps the 99%. It made me sad when they diagnosed her with cancer. She lost her mother and husband to cancer, and now it has hit her a few times. We will be lucky if her replacement is anywhere near as just as she is. I hope she lives to see 100 years!