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Chief Justice John Marshall.
attack ideas. I don’t attack people. Some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job.
extirpation?
To root out or destroy completely
And people need protection Against the vile infection 40 Of rank discrimination in the form of racial caste,41 Which looks like it could last Unless we end it fast.
And saying that our future’ll Be suddenly “race-neutral” Is acting like an ostrich with its head stuck in the sand— Because it cannot stand To see what plagues our land.42
reinforce entitle- Ment
Reinforce entitlement?
What hubris! what hubris!
For the law of the land in that era was grounded In the notion that justice was just for the few,
So we’re freeing the people we used to hold captive,50 Who deserve to be more than just servants or wives.51 If we hadn’t been willing to be so adaptive, Can you honestly say we’d have led better 52 lives?
Not until We the People and our Constitution are living 53 In a nation, in a place That, regardless of station or race, Is a nation where all of us truly belong!
So, until every person is treated as equal Well beyond what the Founders initially saw, Let our past and our present be merely the prequel To a future enlightened by flexible law!
SCALIA, GINSBURG (cont’d): We are different. We are one. The U.S. contradiction—
Always one decision from charting the course we will steer . . .65 For our future Is unclear, But one thing is constant— The Constitution we revere.66 We are stewards of this trust; 67 We uphold it as we must, For the work of our Court is just Begun . . . And this is why we will see justice done: We are different; We are one.
Work at the U.S. Supreme Court is ever challenging, enormously time consuming, and tremendously satisfying.
Just like the trading team :)
We are constantly reading, thinking, and trying to write so that at least lawyers and other judges will understand our rulings.
Replace rulings with trades!
Her presence, she was told, “would . . . distract the attention of the young men” in the class.
Pause for groan/eye roll
Graduating with women, it was feared, would lessen the value of the men’s diplomas.
🙄
Congress sometimes is more in tune with changing times than the Court is.
future running mate, Marietta Stow: “We shall never have equal rights until we take them, nor equal respect until we command
Belva Lockwood.. remember this!!!
Not intimidated by slights and detractors, to the end of her life in 1917, she remained an unflappable optimist.
Even so, there is a need for women of Lockwood’s sense and steel to guard against backsliding, and to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters can aspire and achieve, with no artificial barriers blocking their way.
“[h]owever desperate his case, Benjamin habitually addressed the court as if it were impossible for him to lose.”
Brandeis elaborated the canons of judicial restraint more powerfully than any other jurist, cautioning judges to be ever on guard against “erect[ing] our prejudices into legal principles.”
the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties;
the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be ...
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What is the difference between a New York City garment district bookkeeper and a Supreme Court Justice? One generation my life bears witness, the difference between opportunities open to my mother, a bookkeeper, and those open to me.
When my father died, my mother would not permit others to take her daughters’ place in saying the Kaddish, and so I am sure I am acting in her spirit when I am moved to decline your offer. But beautiful your offer remains nevertheless, and, I repeat, I know full well that it is much more in consonance with the generally accepted Jewish tradition than is my or my family’s conception. You understand me, don’t you?
Beautiful
Can you imagine a more perfect put-down, or words more supportive when a colleague’s position seems to betray a certain lack of understanding?
Ruth read this as an epic burn 🤣😂
she is a true cowgirl, resourceful, resilient, equipped to cope with whatever fortune brings her way.
Sandra day oconnor
“Sandra has a special talent, perhaps a gene, for lighting up the room . . . she enters; for [restoring] good humor in the presence of strong disagreement; for [producing constructive] results; and for [reminding] those at odds today . . . that ‘tomorrow is another day.’ ”1
Love this about SDOC
Once fully recovered, she spoke of that trying time; her account, carried on public television, gave women battling cancer hope, the courage to continue, to do as she did. She went back to the 8:00 a.m. exercise class she initiated at the Court long before it was predicted she could. “[T]here was a lot I couldn’t do,” she said, “[b]ut I did a little, I did what I could.”5
During oral argument, many a distinguished counsel—including a Harvard Law School professor and more than one solicitor general—began his response to my question: “Well, Justice O’Connor . . .” Sometimes when that happened, Sandra would smile and crisply remind counsel: “She’s Justice Ginsburg. I’m Justice O’Connor.”
Normalize gettingnpeoples names right
She has regularly welcomed foreign jurists visiting the United States, and she has traveled long distances to meet with lawyers and judges abroad, many times at the request of the U.S. State Department.10
What a bad ass
It is her gift for empathy: when Gloria is the center of attention, she holds no megaphone; “she’s almost always listening.”
❤
Second Circuit Judicial Conference in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. The topic of our debate with sociologist Lionel Tiger and Fordham Law School professor Whelan:
Find footage or notes from this debate
Ann Washington’s health was poor; to make the bumpy way more tolerable, Bushrod read aloud to her.
Cute
they called my Italian trip ‘Mother’s Revolt.’ ”
Refreshing to hear stories of independent women from this time period
success. She sought to be helpmate to, not independent from, John Marshall
introduced the cherry blossoms that annually adorn the capital city to celebrate the arrival of spring.
Nellie Taft
“Change is the law of life, and the judiciary will have to change to meet the challenges we will face in the future.”72 Changes are in store for the Court in the Term about to start. But I anticipate that they will be eased by the way the Justices and their partners—at work and in life—relate to, care about, and respect each other.
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one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; . . . it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
Relevant
recognize the claim of women to full membership in the class people, entitled to due process guarantees of life and liberty and equal protection of the laws.
"Membership in the class people"
kept great numbers of them at a compensation level appreciably lower than the level assigned to men performing work of the same kind and quality.14
Whew heard dat
Illinois Female Employment Act.
Is this really a thing?
would offer students of both sexes the same options with respect to housing accommodations.
"Would offer" like oh gee thanks
115-year-old practice of catering only to men.
only serve to isolate women from the realities of everyday life, and to perpetuate, as a matter of law, economic and sexual exploitation.”
THISSSSS
media have presented frequent, and sometimes misleading, accounts of an activist women’s movement.
True boo
beyond Kinder, Kirche, and Küche
Children church and kitchen
