Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the women who went to law school with her knew something of what it had taken to get there. In the second part of this special series, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg’s classmates about their lives in the law after Harvard, and to Justice Ginsburg herself about what women in the law today can take from their stories. Read Slate’s full interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg about her own time at Harvard Law School and her memories of her female classmates here. Read the full stories of each woman’s life here. Archive of President Bill Clinton announcing his intent to nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court courtesy; William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Please be seated.
0:35.0	I wish you all a good afternoon and I thank the members of the Congress
0:44.0	and other interested Americans who are here.
0:47.0	After careful reflection, I am proud to nominate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
0:52.0	Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals
0:56.0	for the District of Columbia.
0:59.0	June 1993.
1:01.0	Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins President Bill Clinton in the Rose Garden
1:06.0	as he announces his intent to nominate her to the Supreme Court.
1:10.0	If as I believe the measure of a person's values can best be measured
1:15.0	by examining the life the person lives, then judge Ginsburg's values
1:20.0	are the very ones that represent the best in America.
1:24.0	I am proud to nominate this path-breaking attorney, advocate and judge
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