Her first time arguing a case before the Supreme Court- Frontiero v. Along the way, Ginsburg became, as one supporter put it, the “architect of the legal strategy for the women’s movement.”Ħ. The book explains how Ginsburg, who went by the nickname Kiki as a baton-twirling teen in Brooklyn, edged into the boys’ clubs at Cornell and Harvard Law School in the ’50s (she later became the first female tenured law professor at Columbia Law), also cofounded the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU (while a young wife and mother of two), battled against sex discrimination, fought for equal pay, and ascended to the high court. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an equally stirring and highly entertaining new book by MSNBC journalist Irin Carmon and Notorious RBG Tumblr creator Shana Knizhnik, documents how, exactly, that happened. Two decades later, in her 80s, Ginsburg became a meme-the “ Notorious RBG,” subject of Tumblrs, hashtags, signature cocktails (the “Ruth Bader Ginger”), nail art, and infant Halloween costumes. Supreme Court (joining Sandra Day O’Connor). ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second-ever female justice on the U.S.
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