Justice Ginsburg’s Senate Confirmation hearings were extraordinarily collegial, even for that time in history. Both Democrats and Republicans were awed by the extremely high ethical bar she set for herself, not only as a jurist in the D.C. Court, but also as an advocate in the years preceding her appointment to the bench. Despite the overflowing praise…
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SCOTUS: Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer of women’s rights as an advocate in early ’70’s
Frontiero v. Richardson Advocates Joseph J. Levin, Jr. Argued the cause for the appellants Samuel Huntington Argued the cause for the appellees Ruth Bader Ginsburg for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae, by special leave of Court Facts of the case Sharron Frontiero, a lieutenant in the United States Air Force, sought a dependent’s allowance…
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