Former President Barack Obama beautifully honored 'warrior for gender equality' Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Obama's tribute then began by mentioning how 60 years ago Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk and -- even after studying at the finest law schools and having"ringing recommendations" -- was rejected because she was a woman.
"Ten years later, she sent her first brief to the Supreme Court -- which led it to strike down a state law based on gender discrimination for the first time," Obama acknowledged."And then, for nearly three decades, as the second woman ever to sit on the highest court in the land, she was a warrior for gender equality -- someone who believed that equal justice under law only had meaning if it applied to every single American.
Calling her a"relentless litigator and an incisive jurist," Obama stated that she"helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are — and who we can be."If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.
"A basic principle of the law -- and of everyday fairness -- is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment," he noted.and celebrated her contributions to the U.S. Ginsburg was only the second woman ever confirmed to the Supreme Court, of four total, and a pioneer of women's rights and gender equality, long before her scorching dissents launched her into pop culture icon-dom as the Notorious R.B.G.
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