Happy holidays everyone, it's Mary. This week we are rebroadcasting

episodes that stuck with us. Even in this year when the news cycle could flip itself

on its head between breakfast and lunchtime. Today we're going to remember Ruth

Bader Ginsburg. She died in September at 87 years old. And back then the person

I most wanted to process the news with was Dahlia Lithwick.

Dahlia Lithwick has covered the Supreme Court and watched Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a long time now.

But it wasn't until a few years back she realized Ruth Bader Ginsburg was watching her too. She said she liked reading me because I was spicy.

That was the very first note I got which was that she had said I like reading that girl she's spicy.

There are a lot of ways to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy. She was a feminist, a scholar, a

jurist. But Dahlia says, she was also polite, old school. Ginsburg was known for sending these notes out on Supreme Court stationary.

She sent one to a little girl who dressed up like her for her school's superhero day.

She sent another to a writer and fan who'd invited

R. B. G to her wedding on a lark. But it wasn't just thank you notes. The thing

she was most famous for I think was like you'd

submit your wedding vows. Jeff Rosen tells this story but so many people tell the

story of submitting the draft of their wedding bows at 2 in the morning.

And she'd edit it?

Yeah, you get back. Jeff's version of the story is very funny that you know you just

are setting in pro forma like this is what we've agreed to do,

well you just read this.

And at 2 in the morning getting back handwritten like,

this is a little retrograde, don't like this, maybe rethink this.

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