BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for women’s rights at the U.S. Supreme Court and became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87.
But for the most part Ginsburg enjoyed her fame and maintained a sense of humor about herself.
Two years later, the couple returned to the East Coast to attend Harvard Law School. She was one of only nine women in a class of over 500 and found the dean asking her why she was taking up a place that"should go to a man." It was bad enough that she was a woman, she recalled later, but she was also a mother, and male judges worried that she would be diverted by her"familial obligations."
The tax court concluded that the internal revenue code was immune to constitutional challenge, a notion that tax lawyer Marty Ginsburg viewed as"preposterous." The two Ginsburgs took on the case, he from the tax perspective, she from the constitutional perspective.According to Marty Ginsburg, for his wife, this was the"mother brief." She had to think through all the issues and how to fix the inequity.
It was the first time the court had ever struck down a state law because it discriminated based on gender.Ginsburg joins the only three other women to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court — Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — in a celebration of O'Connor, the first woman justice, at the Newseum in Washington in 2012.Ginsburg joins the only three other women to sit on the U.S.
In an interview with NPR, she explained the legal theory that she eventually sold to the Supreme Court.
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