Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, August 11, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first day as the Supreme Court Justice

she was sworn in the day before, had been confirmed relatively smoothly earlier in

the year, after being nominated by Bill Clinton to replace relatively smoothly not sure when she was getting sworn in if she realized that someday she would become a bit of a meme with people getting tattoos of her face or her image on onesies on babies in Park Slope and Berkeley, but hey here we are and let's talk a little bit about the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's time on the

court. I'm joined as always by Nicole Hammer of Columbia. Hello Nicky.

Yeah you never see the semi-ironic onesies coming do you?

Hey Judy.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

You live your whole life without having people get a tattoo of your face and then someday that just changes.

And so I guess it's hopeful.

All of us at some point someone might

get a tattoo of your face but I don't know if we aspire yes we can aspire and

our special guest this episode who who else to join for this one but one of our

favorite legal writers and talkers Dahlia

Lithwick of Slate who does the amicus podcast which just published a three-part

series on Ruth Bader Ginsburg including an interview with Ginsburg herself so hello Dahlia thank you for doing this.

Hi Jody, hi Nicky. I want to just put in a pitch for someone to get cracking on the

Elena Kagan onesies. I think its time is coming.

Agreed.

So, you know, Sonia Stott of Maior has a lot, a lot, a lot of fans, but I think Elena

Kagan somehow, not nearly enough onesies or face tattoos. So she's the dark course in the onesies game

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