A justice speaks; justice is elusive; justice is sought
By Peter Keough Globe correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 1:45 p.m.
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One of the unexpected revelations in Freida Lee Mockâs
âRuth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Wordsâ (2019) is that the late, idolized US Supreme Court justice, who died in September at 87, owed her writing skills to her European literature professor at Cornell University, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov. That distinguished tutelage helped make her, according to one of her former aides, the Tiger Woods of writing briefs.
Mock compiles archival interviews and public utterances by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well as interviews with former aides, associates, and others. These tidbits personalize Ginsburgâs now-familiar trajectory from star law school graduate spurned by employers, to ace ACLU lawyer who prevailed in several gender discrimination cases brought before the Supreme Court, to D.C. Circuit judge, to associate Supreme
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