She will be remembered as a pioneering advocate for womens rights before she went on to the Supreme Court she was head of the a. C. L. U. Womens rights project and she argued 6 cases in front of the Supreme Court 15 of them to convince the court that. There were there were constitutional protections that allowed the discrimination against women and often she used a very interesting strategy she was known as the plaintiffs most famously a widower who had died in childbirth and he wanted to access her Social Security benefits that automatically would have gone to a woman but not for a man and so that over time many cases like this convince the 3 court to embrace the 14th amendment as one that also along with racial equality with men to guarantee sexual equality so its its by far which is going to be known for certainly you know and im an incredible legacy we can say you know we seen it already ive mentioned it what the president ial campaign is going to be coming up with code her death r
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The general public. Confirms he wanted the syrian president Bashar Al Assad and his crosshairs the assassination records of his former defense secretary. 4 pm here in the russian capital on daniel thanks for joining us today here on r. T. International. To clarify how a military grade nerve agent was reportedly used on russian soil referring to the case of opposition activists alexina valmy russia and the west politicizing his condition in a message relayed by the countrys top diplomat to his german counterpart. Well at least a phone conversation between the 2 ministers is better than nothing because at one point the talks got canceled altogether when. Chose not to fly to berlin after the russian side realized that decided to cut down the planned time for their conversation to one and a half hours an update on the Russian Foreign Ministry Website shows that the chat wasnt easy at all so here are moscows key points russian officials are and will be open to all d kinds of cooperation wit