Pushkin. Hey everyone. This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Thank you for being here.

It is with a heavy heart that I do this podcast today.

By now you have likely heard the news on Friday, September 18th,

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.

After years of battling pancreatic cancer, she was 87. In 1993, she was just the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

This court, mind you, has been around since 1789.

For the first 180 years, justices were almost always white male Protestants.

Ginsburg nomination brought in by Bill Clinton was historic.

She served on the bench for 27 years.

But over the past decade, she ascended to this kind of icon status.

She was a pioneer on behalf of women's rights, a woman of peerless fortitude, even as the cancer metastasized.

After graduating at the top of her class at Harvard Law School, she started litigation

in the

19 70s, mind you, this was a time when law firms across this country

seldom hired women outside of secretarial positions.

In her memoir titled My Own Words, she wrote,

How Lucky I Was to be Alive and a Lawyer

when for the first time in U history it became possible to urge successfully

before legislators and courts the equal citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Throughout her career she pushed boundaries and broke barriers.

In her final days of life, surrounded by family in her home

in Washington, D.C., she dictated a statement to her granddaughter, Clara.

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