Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"

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

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News Commentary,, Government, News

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🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In July, Slate published "The Class of RBG,” a print piece and two podcast episodes about the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law School class. June Thomas talked to Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about the making of the package on the July 26 episode of Working, Slate’s podcast about the creative process. We thought Amicus listeners would enjoy a slightly extended version of that interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm June Thomas, Senior Managing Producer of Slate Podcasts and a co-host of Working,
0:15.9	a podcast about the creative process.
0:18.7	I recently recorded a segment on working with Amicus's own, Dahlia Lithwick and Slate
0:23.9	Staff writer Molly Olmsted about their big class of RBG project, which you heard on Amicus
0:29.8	last month.
0:30.8	And I wanted to share that segment with you today.
0:33.5	You'll get to hear about how the project was put together over the past year, but it
0:37.3	was liked to interview just his Ginsburg and other great behind the scenes stories.
0:42.2	Here's our conversation.
0:43.9	Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast
0:47.9	Amicus.
0:48.9	Hi, Dahlia.
0:49.9	Hi, June.
0:50.9	And Molly Olmsted is a Slate Staff writer.
0:53.2	Hi, Molly.
0:54.2	Hi, June.
0:55.2	Okay, let's start from the beginning.
0:57.1	Where did the idea for the class of RBG originate?
1:01.7	Dan Coise's wife is the short answer.
1:05.0	That's Alia Smith, who's an attorney herself.
1:07.5	Would she come up with it?
1:09.6	She watched the movie, The Biopic, on the basis of sex.
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