20 years of closed-door conversations with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographerChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds."There is no man, no woman, who has it all," she remarked in one interview with me as we sat in her oak-paneled chambers filled with contemporary art."Life just isn't that way.
How RBG welcomed Neil Gorsuch to the bench 02:30"Ruth, you just do it," O'Connor answered bluntly,"and get your opinion in circulation before he makes the next set of assignments."As Ginsburg related the story, she said of the no-nonsense O'Connor:"That is so typical Sandra." O'Connor, who grew up on a ranch, exuded determination in all things.
The Supreme Court's odd couple 02:00One such incident occurred in spring 2009, when I wrote about Ginsburg's views of a then-pending case involving an eighth-grade girl who had been strip-searched for the drug ibuprofen at her Arizona school. I brought the dispute up with Ginsburg because of the frustration she had displayed at oral arguments when her colleagues minimized the girl's ordeal."They have never been a 13-year-old girl. It's a very sensitive age for a girl.
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