This is Civics 101, I'm Hannah McCarthy.

In September of 2022, for a program called Riders on a New England stage, a partnership

between New Hampshire Public Radio and the music call and portsmith New Hampshire, I got

to step on stage with National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

Nina had just written a book about her experiences as a journalist, especially covering the Supreme

Court and perhaps most importantly, forming a lifelong friendship with the late Supreme

Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

That book is called Dinners with Ruth.

I want to share a part of that conversation with the Civics 101 audience because come

on how often you get this close to someone who gets that close to the Supreme Court.

So here I am with Nina Totenberg for Riders on a New England stage.

Thank you.

And Nina, thank you so much for being here with us tonight.

It's really my pleasure and I hope everybody gives to their local public radio station.

Now, you know, I know that when you first started covering the Supreme Court, it was not

considered important enough to be your full-time job.

Well, when I first was assigned to cover the Supreme Court in my earlier days, I had

many other jobs in print first and then when NPR hired me.

We had only one news program and it was an hour and a half.

It was all thanks considered in the evening.

It started at 5, not 4.

And my beat was the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, the House and Senate Judiciary

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