Then there was a Democrat in the White House whom you wanted to block, and now there is a Republican whom you want to support. McConnell, you are right, there is an obvious difference between the situation in 2016 and the current Supreme Court vacancy. She will live forever in my heart for her amazing work, but also for her personal grace and love. Years later I wrote her a heartfelt thank-you, reminding her of what she had done for me, and she responded with characteristic grace and humanity. I was allowed to transfer to Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. What generosity, what incredible magnanimity, for someone she just met. However, she offered (I did not ask) to write a letter of recommendation for me. She explained that most law school transfers were for military members and veterans - practically all men. She warned me that it was extremely difficult, particularly for the very few women in law schools, to transfer. Ginsburg, then a famous feminist lawyer, speak at Rutgers University School of Law.Īfterward, I went up to talk with her about my transfer. So I needed to transfer to a law school in that area.
However, my husband’s work required that we relocate to Boston. In 1972, I had completed my first year at Howard University School of Law.
But years ago, she gave me a personal gift. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave the world many gifts. I am so saddened at the passing of one of the greatest women in history. Greg Schwed New York The writer is a lawyer. Her deciding to stay on was an act of, I believe, ego - for which the nation will now pay severely. Justice Ginsburg was already in her 80s at the time and had been treated for pancreatic cancer.
RUSH LIMBAUGH MOCKS RUTH BADER GINSBURG INSTALL
Many of us thought Justice Ginsburg should have resigned and allowed President Barack Obama and a lame-duck Senate to install a young, progressive appointee. After the 2014 midterm election, it became clear that Democrats would no longer control the Senate. I was also troubled that the court may soon be packed with three Trump appointees - appointees who will be more likely to bend to President Trump’s will in the increasingly likely event of a contested election.īut my next reaction was that Justice Ginsburg herself disserved the very interests she fought for. My first reaction, like that of countless others, was sadness at the loss of a great justice. McConnell’s desk, yet he acts quickly and disrespectfully now. Multiple bills representing the will of the American people have collected dust on Mr. With apologies to Shakespeare, the funeral meats for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have not even been set on the table, yet Mitch McConnell is gleefully making statements about how the Senate will vote on President Trump’s nominee to replace her. Upset that his mother, Gertrude, is marrying Claudius, his uncle, too soon after his father’s death, Hamlet famously says to Horatio: “The funeral baked meats/Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” Re “ Election Jolted as McConnell Vows a Vote on a Trump Pick” (front page, Sept. Greenhouse packed so much important information into a beautifully synthesized and thoughtfully analyzed retrospective on Ms. Silver San Francisco The writer is a lawyer.īravo, Linda Greenhouse! Thank you for the remarkably cogent, brilliantly written piece on the life and judicial work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The blatant hypocrisy of such a move will taint both institutions for years to come. The same Republican-controlled Senate that cited the then upcoming 2016 presidential election as a pretext to refuse to hold hearings on President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland, will no doubt rush to confirm a nominee by President Trump notwithstanding the approaching 2020 election. However, my heart also goes out to the American people, who will have their faith in our nation’s democratic institutions tested as perhaps never before. She will be remembered as a brilliant, fierce and eloquent guardian of our Constitution and a giant in the law. My heart goes out to the family of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Re “ Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead at 87,” by Linda Greenhouse (front page, Sept.
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