“Once Justice O’Connor was questioning counsel at oral argument,” RBG recalled. “I thought she was done, so I asked a question, and Sandra said: ‘Just a minute, I’m not finished.’ So I apologized to her and she said, ‘It’s OK, Ruth. The guys do it to each other all the time, they step on each other’s questions.’ And then there appeared an item in USA Today, and the headline was something like ‘Rude Ruth Interrupts Sandra.’”
