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Best of Words Matter Library: The Ginsburg Files

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this Best of edition of the Words Matter Library, Katie sits down with Lauren Moxley, the host of The Ginsburg Tapes Podcast -- which chronicles Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s oral arguments before the then all-male United States Supreme Court from 1972 to 1978 —before she became #Notorious RBG. The Ginsburg Tapes allows the listener to be a fly on the wall for some of the most important cases in American jurisprudence as future Justice Ginsburg challenged laws treating men and women differently. In between the actually Supreme Court recordings, Lauren puts the cases, the law and even the Justices themselves in historical context and explains how as a lawyer, RBG really did change the World. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

0:12.2

This is the Words Matter Library.

0:17.2

So Katie, for the Words Matter Library we like to highlight books, speeches, podcasts,

0:24.5

things that we like in this space.

0:26.3

And I know for the end of the year we wanted to highlight one that you particularly enjoyed

0:30.2

doing, tell us a little bit about the Ginsburg tapes.

0:33.9

So the Ginsburg tapes is a podcast series that is written and recorded by a woman named

0:41.2

Lauren Moxley, who is a brilliant blonde big law attorney in Washington, DC, and took

0:48.8

the time to really delve into not the cases that Justice Ginsburg has dealt with on the

0:55.1

bench, but the cases that she argued before the Supreme Court when she was an advocate.

1:02.8

And she goes sometimes line by line of the arguments and really teases out what was going

1:08.3

on in the country at the time when there are a lot of civil rights issues and hotly contested

1:14.7

and debated questions going up to the Supreme Court.

1:17.8

And she walks you through how the notorious RBG worked through all of those arguments

1:24.6

and came to be the advocate that she was at the time and is known for today.

1:30.4

And many Supreme Court watchers and journalists and experts will tell you that Justice Ginsburg

1:38.7

will actually be more well known in the history books for her role as an advocate before

1:44.3

the court than even as a justice.

1:47.7

And we'll see if that rings true, but it's definitely worth a listen.

1:51.7

It's called the Ginsburg tapes by Lauren Moxley and I highly recommend it.

2:00.3

I am thrilled to welcome our guest today, Lauren Moxley.

2:04.1

Lauren is a lawyer here in Washington, DC, where she practices appellate litigation and

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