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Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Remembering Justice Ginsburg

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Richard Primus, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former clerk of Justice Ginsburg, discusses what it was like to work for the Justice, her legacy, and what comes next.

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0:39.2

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories

0:44.2

behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. Last Friday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

0:51.3

died in office at the age of 87.

0:56.4

Justice Ginsburg was a central figure in the struggle for women's equality.

1:01.9

She argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that established important principles of equality

1:08.3

for men and women.

1:10.3

She then became a federal judge and a Supreme Court justice,

1:14.0

and then towards the end of her time on the bench, she became something more than that.

1:18.8

She became a national celebrity, the so-called notorious RBG.

1:24.4

Here to discuss Ginsburg's life and her legacy, particularly her legacy as a jurist, we're joined by Richard Primus.

1:33.3

Richard is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan.

1:37.3

He clerked for Justice Ginsburg in the 1999 Supreme Court term.

1:41.3

Richard is also the person with whom my education in constitutional law has been

1:46.1

most closely entangled. He and I first met on our very first day of freshman year. We studied

1:52.3

constitutional law together in college. We talked about it constantly when we were together in

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