Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the second woman on the Supreme Court and is seen as an icon to feminists everywhere. She has been talented, independent and strong-willed since before she was nominated for the Supreme Court by former President Clinton. At 17 she lost her mother and began college. She attended Cornell, Harvard and Columbia Universities, each at the top of her class and one of only a few women studying to be a lawyer.
She met the love of her life second semester of freshmen year and they supported each other at every turn. At one point she was studying, taking care of her daughter, care for her husband with cancer and making sure her husband learned his studies as well. Upon graduation at Columbia, she was not accepted into any law firms. Later she became a professor and upon student interest began a class pertaining to sex in the law.
Soon she started working Supreme Court cases that involved equal rights of men and women. She won five of her six cases to the Supreme Court. Upon President Carter being elected, he noticed that all of the federal judges in the United States were white men, so he appointed Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the US Court of appeals for the District of Columbia.
Later, President Clinton was deciding on his Supreme Court nominee and was not even considering Ruth Bader Ginsburg until her husband made such a stir for her that President Clinton and RGB spoke. Upon speaking one time, President Clinton decided to make her his nominee although her age. Now she sits on the Supreme Court at the ripe old age of 85 years will superpowers over the people.
How did RGB become so popular?
It was not until more recently that she became widely known because of her dissents from the Supreme Court. She would write statements directly to Congress to change the laws and fix issues such as the wage gap. Another time the pure passive aggressive comments written in the dissents would grow fame as people connected with her opinions.
Her fame on the internet began as a blog by former New York University law student Shana Knizhnik in the summer of 2013, when Ginsburg gave a particularly scathing dissent about the imperative of voting rights in states with histories of racial discrimination. Her nickname "Notorious RGB" caught wind with memes and other sources that took over the internet and gave this little old Jewish grandmother fame with youth.
Go watch her movie!
In theaters now there is a movie about the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I urge everyone to go see her talents and history. I have learned so much about her and the people she has helped by watching this film. She is like no other judge in the world as she speaks her mind about what is right. If she was up for Supreme Court Justice today she would not be appointed because she told Congress before they voted on her that she was Pro-choice.
When she was nominated she told them this and many congressmen stated that they did not agree on this issue but that she had a right to her own opinions and that she is still a fair judge even with her own opinions because we are all people. She was voted in 96 to 3 in 1993. For years she was in the middle of the court, even being the closest of friends with Justice Scalia.
