Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Constitutional Icon

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On Constitution Day, September 17, the National Constitution Center awards the 2020 Liberty Medal to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her efforts to advance liberty and equality for all. As part of the Liberty Medal celebration—and the Center’s yearlong Women and the Constitution initiative celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage—this podcast explores the Justice’s living constitutional legacy both before and after joining the Supreme Court bench, including her trailblazing work as a lawyer advocating for gender equality, then as an Associate Justice writing landmark majority opinions in addition to her well-known dissents, and today as cultural and constitutional icon who continues to inspire generations of Americans. Host Jeffrey Rosen is joined by Kelsi Corkran, head of the Supreme Court practice at Orrick, and University of California Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler, who both clerked for Justice Ginsburg. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:08.0	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.7	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress
0:16.8	to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:22.3	On Constitution Day, September 17th,
0:25.0	the National Constitution Center awards the 2020 Liberty Medal
0:28.0	to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
0:31.0	as part of our Liberty Medal commemoration, this podcast explores the
0:37.0	justices constitutional legacy, both as an advocate and a Supreme Court justice. I'm honored to be joined by two former clerks for
0:46.1	Justice Ginsburg. Kelsey Brown Corcoran is head of the Supreme Court practice at Oreck. She was formerly a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice's
0:55.3	civil appellate division, and she worked in the Communications
0:58.6	Office of the White House Executive Office of the President
1:01.3	on Judicial Confirmations.
1:03.0	She clerked for Justice Ginsburg during the 2013 term.
1:07.2	Kelsey, it is wonderful to have you on the show.
1:10.0	Thank you for having me.
1:10.8	This is great.
1:12.4	And Amanda Tyler is Shannon C. Turner Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.
1:18.0	Her forthcoming book, Co-written with Justice Ginsburg, explores the justice's pursuit of gender equality through her life and work.
1:26.5	She's also the author of the book Habius Corpus in wartime, which she
1:33.3	discussed at the National Constitution Center last year. She clerked for Justice Ginsburg
1:35.1	in the October 1999 term.
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