![]() How Ginsburg made the law fairer for every woman (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images) Tom Brenner/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Justice Ginsburg spoke to over 300 attendees about the Supreme Court's previous term. ![]() WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivers remarks at the Georgetown Law Center on September 12, 2019, in Washington, DC. Holder decision also exhibited some blind spots. But the same passionately brilliant legal mind that railed against the Supreme Court’s callous decision to stop protecting the voting rights of all Americans in the 2013 Shelby v. The woman who became the Notorious RBG was a Harvard and Columbia-educated lawyer who, in the parlance of the streets, took no shorts, meaning she suffered no fools gladly. Ginsburg acknowledged that she and Wallace were both born in Brooklyn, but had little else to say about the comparison. Shana Knizhik, an NYU law student, gave Justice Ginsburg the moniker “Notorious RBG,” popularized through a Tumblr account and a subsequent book co-authored with journalist Irin Carmon. Ginsburg and hip hop legend Christopher Wallace – aka the original “Notorious BIG” – shared a Brooklyn-born birthright forged in the crucible of a borough famous for producing icons (Jay-Z anyone?) who started out as underdogs. ![]() Peniel Joseph Kelvin Ma/Tufts University/Kelvin Ma/Tufts University ![]()
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