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Culture Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Anti-Trump Comments Spark Backlash
President Obama has, in his last months in office, been making a habit of the mic drop. (See his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and his recent Jimmy Fallon-aided slow jamming of the news.) Based on a recent New York Times interview, it seems Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is impressed by his style….
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Senate Should Act on Merrick Garland
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the Senate has an obligation to hold hearings and a vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland “That’s their job,” she said. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.” Garland, a judge in the Washington D.C. circuit, was nominated in…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Does ‘Not Want To Think’ About President Trump
What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg think about Donald Trump? You don’t need to be a genius to read between the lines. When asked about a hypothetical Trump presidency, the Jewish Supreme Court justice said, “I don’t want to think about that possibility.” If the Donald were to win, she continued, “everything is up for grabs,”…
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Fast Forward Besides the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mantis, Here’s 13 Bugs Named after Jews
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History last week announced that a newly identified species of praying mantis after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Researchers from the museum said they meant to honor the Jewish justice’s “relentless fight for gender equality.” It makes sense. Ilomantis ginsburgae is the first mantis classified by distinct qualities in its…
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News We Did What We Had To: My Teen Abortion Tale, 1969
When memory bursts, it’s like a dam opening, flooding the present. Still, I did not expect it to happen in a late-night taxi as I headed home from work, reading a New York Times story on my smartphone. On its face, the story before me had nothing to do with my own history: It was…
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Life New PAC Has Message for Mediocre White Men — Don’t Run for Office
“People ask me sometimes, ‘When do you think it will be enough? When will there be enough women on the court?’ And my answer is when there are nine,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said. Yup, nine. Just all of them, that will be enough, thanks. That’s the chutzpah that makes RBG the…
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The Schmooze 6 Sweet Moments Between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ‘Best Buddy’ Antonin Scalia
As much as they disagreed on matters of the law, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia did agree on how much they liked each other. Both children of immigrants, the liberal pint-sized Ginsburg and Scalia, the conservative with the affable smile, often talked of their decades-long friendship that transcended partisan lines….
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pays Poignant Tribute to ‘Best Buddy’ Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid tribute Sunday to Antonin Scalia, the colleague and unlikely friend who died a day earlier. Ginsburg, who forged a close bond with Scalia despite their places on opposits sides of the ideological spectrum, called her friend “a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit.” “We were best buddies,” she…
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