Sandra and Ruth
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia sits down with Linda Hirshman, author of Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. Hirshman recounts the two women’s rise to the SCOTUS bench and reflects on the impact they’ve had.**************Subscribe to our podcast here. Want a transcript of this week’s episode? They’re all available to members of Slate Plus. Consider signing up today -- members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today. Amicus is sponsored by the Great Courses, offering engaging audio and video lectures taught by top professors. Courses like "Cycles of American Political Thought." Right now, get up to 80 percent off the original price when you visit TheGreatCourses.com/AMICUS.And by LegalZoom—a way for regular people to confidently navigate the legal system. If you need help with Incorporation, Trademarks, Last Wills, Living Trusts, and more, then don't let legal hurdles become an excuse. Go to LegalZoom.com today and enter AMICUS in the referral box for additional savings. And by FreshBooks, the super-simple invoicing solution designed to help lawyers, consultants, and freelancers be organized, save time, and get paid faster. Creating and sending invoices, managing your expenses, and tracking your billable hours is about to get a lot easier. Go to FreshBooks.com/AMICUS for your free 30-day trial. Please let us know what you think of our legal affairs podcast. Our email is amicus@slate.com.Podcast production by Tony Field.
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| 0:00.0 | Amicus is sponsored by The Great Courses, offering engaging audio and video lectures taught by top professors. |
| 0:06.1 | Courses like Cycles of American Political Thought. |
| 0:08.7 | Right now, get up to 80% off the original price when you visit the greatcourses.com slash amicus. |
| 0:14.4 | And by Legal Zoom, a way for regular people to confidently navigate the legal system. |
| 0:19.3 | If you need help with incorporation, trademarks, |
| 0:21.8 | last wills, living trusts, and more, don't let legal hurdles become an excuse. Go to legalzoom.com |
| 0:27.7 | today and enter amicus in the referral box for additional savings. That's legalzoom.com promo code |
| 0:34.1 | amicus. And by FreshBooks, the super simple invoicing solution designed to help lawyers, consultants, and freelancers be organized, save time, and get paid faster. |
| 0:44.3 | Creating and sending invoices, managing your expenses, and tracking your billable hours is about to get a whole lot easier. |
| 0:49.7 | Go to FreshBooks.com slash amicus for your free 30-day trial. |
| 0:53.4 | That's freshbooks.com slash amicus for your free 30-day trial. That's freshbooks.com slash amicus. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello and welcome to amicus, Slate's podcast about the law and the justices who interpret it. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Supreme Court correspondent. Now, over the summer, an awful lot of you |
| 1:09.4 | wrote in to ask that we please, please profile some of the justices themselves. |
| 1:13.6 | Talk about their stories, their biographies, and ways that make them come alive beyond just their opinions and the things that they write and say on the bench. |
| 1:21.7 | So this week, we thought we'd oblige by interviewing Linda Hirschman, a friend of Slate, and the author of a new book, |
| 1:28.3 | Sisters-in-Law, how Sandra O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court |
| 1:32.6 | and changed the world. |
| 1:34.5 | Sisters-in-law just came out a few weeks ago, so we invited Linda into the studio to talk about |
| 1:39.1 | these two pioneering women and what the role of gender really is at the Supreme Court. Now, this is a |
| 1:45.2 | subject I've thought and written about so much myself, so it gives me huge pleasure to welcome |
| 1:50.2 | Linda Hirschman to Amicus. Thank you so very much for having me. Now, I think that one of the |
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