It’s young people—but maybe also remembering that she knows the law better than Donald Trump
Couric recalled the time she brought Ginsburg a jabot—the decorative collar Ginsburg wears around her neck in the courtroom—made of Italian lace about five years ago. “I did an interview with her about her childhood and about growing up and the forces that shaped her,” said Couric. “She doesn’t take no for an answer, and she’s just a really strong, powerful, badass woman.”colleague, was full of admiration too.
“I love her, and she wears wrap dresses,” said von Furstenberg, acknowledging that the Supreme Court justice has put on her most iconic silhouette. When Ginsburg enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1956, she was 1 of 9 women in a class of 500. Only 3% of women were lawyers. “There were a precious few on the bench, a precious few judges, and there was no law that prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender,” said Ginsburg. “So it was closed door.”
Ginsburg recalled instances of women being treated unfairly due to their gender and the complaints that came to her. “One group were teachers who were put on what was euphemistically called ‘maternity leave’ as soon as they began to show,” she remembered. “After all, they didn’t want the children to think that the teacher had swallowed a watermelon.
But with abortion restrictions coming into play in over a dozen states, including the temporarily blocked Human Life Protection Act that almost fully bans abortion in Alabama, those rights are under constant threat.
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