Impact on the legal and political world. She was a champion of human rights, womens rights in particular, throughout her long and shatterbarring career. I had three strikes against me. One, i was jewish, two, i was a woman, but the killer was that i was the mother of a 4yearold child. Reporter so how did she rise to the highest court in the country . Coming up this sunday morning, the notorious r. B. G. , Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Pauley from that sad night, it is on to raising the curtain on the new season in entertainment and the arts. A new season so different from those past, you might as well call it the new, new season. From the challenge of safely reopening art museums to the release of firstrun movies on television, to pop music stars not performing their new work live on stage, this new season bears little resemblance to the new seasons of old, as well be showing you throughout the morning. And speaking of pop music stars, lee cowan will be talking with lady gaga, who says she rele
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service
Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
Her books include lewis and its brandeis, published in 1984, nominated a Pulitzer Prize when the nazis came to skokie in 1999. And women in the barracks, published in 2002, about Bader Ginsburgs most Important Supreme Court gender equality opinion, a frequent lecture at home and abroad. She is also the recipient of a prize for scholarly writing about the supreme presented by then chief william rehnquist. And i had the pleasure of cochairing washington history seminar a number of years ago when she stepped in to replace christian when he was on sabbatical from the Wilson Center. Today, philip will be talking about her just published book on account of sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making gender equality law. Philip, welcome back. I should say to the washington history. Great to have you here. The screen all yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you to even though youre not here today, christian and let me echo the to pete and rachel who really make this whole thing work. And also
Her books include lewis and its brandeis, published in 1984, nominated a Pulitzer Prize when the nazis came to skokie in 1999. And women in the barracks, published in 2002, about Bader Ginsburgs most Important Supreme Court gender equality opinion, a frequent lecture at home and abroad. She is also the recipient of a prize for scholarly writing about the supreme presented by then chief william rehnquist. And i had the pleasure of cochairing washington history seminar a number of years ago when she stepped in to replace christian when he was on sabbatical from the Wilson Center. Today, philip will be talking about her just published book on account of sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making gender equality law. Philip, welcome back. I should say to the washington history. Great to have you here. The screen all yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you to even though youre not here today, christian and let me echo the to pete and rachel who really make this whole thing work. And also