I don’t have the words or the credentials to talk about the contributions of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made to our society and democracy.
I do know that she was at the intersection of justice for people of color, women, or let’s keep it simple and just say justice for all. A concept that appears to be’s struggling in today’s society.
So in lieu of a stilted attempt at a tribute, I will let her speak for herself.
“When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?’ and I say ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”
“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 dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.”
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