How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Is Changing the 2020 Election
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 25 September 2020
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Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, at the age of eighty-seven. Although early voting has already begun in several states, President Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues immediately announced their intention to fill Ginsburg’s seat. Jane Mayer and Jeffrey Toobin join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Ginsburg’s legacy, how the fight for her seat will affect the 2020 election, and the key cases that the Court is likely to hear in the coming term.
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| 1:24.2 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg contributed powerful opinions on any number of high-profile cases in her decades on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:31.3 | After her scathing dissent in Bush v. Gore in 2000, Ginsburg gave a speech in which she described the case as an example of how important and difficult it is for judges to do what is legally right, no matter what the |
| 1:45.9 | home crowd wants. But Ginsburg was an icon even before her time on the court. She made her |
| 1:52.5 | reputation as a young lawyer by arguing more than 300 gender discrimination cases, six of them |
| 1:58.8 | before the court. On the court, she was famously friendly with |
| 2:03.3 | her ideological opposite, Antonin Scalia, who once bought her a dozen roses for her birthday, |
| 2:09.5 | because he said he believed that some things are more important than votes. During a memorial |
| 2:16.0 | service in the Supreme Court's Great Hall on Wednesday, Chief Justice |
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