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
Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo
Graduated from high school. It was one of the most trying times in my life, but i knew that she wanted me to study hard, get good grades, and succeed in life. So thats what i did. Reporter she finished first in her class at cornell university, where she met and married martin ginsburg, an aspiring lawyer. She pursued law degree enrolling in harvard 569 err the berth of daughter jane then at columbus Law Law School where she grated at the tom of her class. While a professor at rutgers university, she gain weve both a son james, but soon left rutgers for Columbia University to become that school first tenured lay profess we are as a female. She described the 1970s as a hist or imtime for medicals rights. I was lucky to be born when i was and to be in the right place to help advance this movement for womens equality. Reporter she went on to create the american several libertys unions womens rights project and as General Council for the aclu, she began appearing before the Supreme Court an
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I would like to thank you all for joining us for tonights tribute to Justice Ginsburg. These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , eventered the room though her Security Team always told us that she would leave right after her talk, she always stayed to talk to students and since friday, i have received so many photos from our students of the selfies they took with her. Notes about what a wonderful memory it was. I