“Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.’ But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenters' hope: that they are not writing for today, but for tomorrow.“- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.“- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second female and the first Jewish female associate justice on the Supreme Court from 1993 until her departure in 2020. Before her work on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia Law School and went on to teach at multiple universities, including Columbia Law, where she became the school’s first female tenured professor. During this time in her career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not only a professor, but also became a force in gender equality. She co-founded the Women’s Rights Project as a lawyer and brought cases to the Supreme Court that led to protections against gender discrimination. She continued her work for equality on the Supreme Court after becoming an associate justice. Her contributions to civil rights are endless, but some of her notable strides include; writing the majority opinion on the 1996 United States v. Virginia case-deeming it unconstitutional for taxpayer-funded schools to bar women, paving the way for the Equal Credit Opportunity act that allowed women to apply for credit cards and mortgages without a male co-signer, and pushing to protect pregnant women in the workplace. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020 and became the first woman to lie in state. We thank her for her resilience and for fighting for the American people. May her memory be a blessing. Comments are closed.
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