Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke Thursday about a landmark Supreme Court decision stemming from a state law that favored men over women. The law existed in 1971 at a time when Ginsburg was working as a young lawyer and law professor with an expertise in gender discrimination.
It was an Idaho probate law that read “males must be preferred to females” when more than one person was equally qualified to administer an estate. Long before she took the bench as a Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg challenged the law and won the decision...
Ginsburg was asked about the role of women on the Supreme Court and she noted that for the first time in history, three women are now sitting on the bench. She talked about the period of time beginning with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement in 2006 when she was the only woman on the bench.
“I was alone,” she said, “and I’m not a very large person. It wasn’t the right picture,” she said. ”But now there I am toward the center and Justice Kagan is to my left and Justice Sotomayor to my right, ” she said. ”And for those of you who have attended a court hearing lately will know my two newest colleagues are hardly shrinking violets.”
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