I'm Elizabeth Slattery and I'm Tiffany Bates and welcome to SCOTUS 101 where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking about Ginsburg dissenting in style, redistricting, and we'll interview Gabe Roth from Fix the Court.

So last week, Justice Ginsburg continued

her speaking tour, and she spoke at Addis Israel Synagogue here in D.C. She talked about judicial

independence, collegiality among the justices, sort of the standard things, the usual. The usual.

But she also hit on some more personal topics that I wanted to briefly mention. So she talked about

lessons that she learned from her mother who passed away when Ginsburg was in high school.

One of these lessons was, one was to be a lady, which means to be in control of your emotions

and not to give in to remorse and envy, because according to Ginsburg and her mother, these

emotions sap your strength and keep women from moving forward.

The other lesson was to be independent, which I think Ginsburg has definitely taken that one to heart.

She emphasized the importance of being able to fend for yourself.

I think those are some pretty good lessons.

I think so, yeah.

So Justice Ginsburg also talked about her faith, and there

was one story that I wanted to mention. So I think she said this came from early in her time

on the court. There apparently had been complaints from Orthodox Jewish lawyers who became

members of the Supreme Court bar that the bar certificate, which many people frame and proudly display on their walls,

that these certificates refer to the Year of Our Lord for the year when the attorney was admitted

to the bar.

So Ginsburg said she went to the chief, who would have been Chief Justice Rehnquist at the time,

and he said, if in the year of our Lord was good enough for Brandeis, Frankfurter, even Goldberg,

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