Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg – The New York Times
US.|Remembering Ruth Bader GinsburgJustice Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933. She grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and was called Kiki by friends and family.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressWhen she was 15, she gave a sermon as a camp rabbi at Che-Na-Wah, Minerva, New York. Justice Ginsburg identified deeply with her Jewish faith.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressimageRuth Bader, left, on a James Madison High School field day in 1949. She graduated from Brooklyn school in 1950.Ruth Bader met Martin Ginsburg on a blind date as a freshman at Cornell University. They were engaged in their junior year and were married after graduating in 1954 at his parents' home on Long Island. “He was the only boy I ever met who cared about having a brain,” she said in later years. Her engagement photo was taken while she was a senior at Cornell's in December 1953.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressJustice Ginsburg with her husband Martin and daughter Jane in 1958. Their daughter is now Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Columbia Law School.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressJustice Ginsburg during an interview in her Manhattan apartment in 1972. She became the first woman to be appointed to the faculty of Columbia Law School.Recognition…Librado Romero / The New York TimesIn a number of landmark cases, Justice Ginsburg, shown in 1977, successfully argued before the Supreme Court that the 14th Amendment's protection from discrimination extended not only to race but also to gender.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressJustice Ginsburg with her husband and children off the coast of St. Thomas in 1979.Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressWhile teaching in Columbia, Justice Ginsburg was appointed director of the A.C.L.U.'s new women's rights project. set. Under the auspices of the project, she took cases to the Supreme Court to convince judges that official gender discrimination was harm of constitutional dimensions.Recognition…Paul Hosefros / The New York TimesShe posed as a skilled rider in 1985 in Saqqara in the Egyptian province of Giza.Recognition…Paul Hosefros / The New York TimesJudge Ginsburg and her husband Martin were married for 56 years. He died of cancer in 2010 at the age of 78. In his final days, he left a handwritten note on a yellow pad next to his bed. It read: “My dearest Ruth, you are the only person I have loved in my life aside from parents and children and their children, and I have admired you almost since the day we met in Cornell and loved. "He added," What a pleasure it was to take you to the top of the legal world! "Recognition…Collection by the United States Supreme Court via the Associated PressPresident Bill Clinton appointed Justice Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993. As she announced her appointment in the Rose Garden, she paid tribute to her mother: “I pray that I could be anything she would have been if she had lived at an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are as valued as sons. "She is pictured on the first day of her Senate Judicial Committee confirmation hearings holding up a drawing of herself with the words" My grandmother is very special from Paul Spera, "her grandson.Recognition…Gary Hershorn / ReutersJustice Ginsburg with Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan (left) and Joseph R. Biden Jr., then chairman of the Justice Committee. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court after Judge Sandra Day O'Connor.Recognition…Jose R. Lopez / The New York TimesJustice Ginsburg, center, with her family at the Supreme Court in 1993. From left, her son-in-law, George Spera; her daughter Jane Ginsburg; her husband Martin Ginsburg; and her son James Ginsburg. Justice's grandchildren, Clara Spera and Paul Spera, are up front.Recognition…Doug Mills / Associated PressLisa Leslie, right, a member of the U.S. women's basketball team, gave Justices O & # 39; Connor and Ginsburg high fives in 1995. Justice Ginsburg was known for maintaining an intense fitness program that consisted of weight lifting, squats, planks, and arm wrestling.Recognition…Lisa Berg for the New York TimesOn a trip to Venice in 2016, Justice Ginsburg led a sham trial against Shylock in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco after a performance of “The Merchant of Venice”.Recognition…Alessandro Grassani for the New York TimesHarvard Law School awarded Justice Ginsburg an honorary title in 2011 at a ceremony at which Plácido Domingo, another honorary recipient, addressed her in songs. Gerechtigkeit Ginsburg, an opera lover, called it one of the greatest experiences of her life.Recognition…Brian Snyder / ReutersGerechtigkeit Ginsburg was awarded the Berggruen Prize 2019, which is awarded annually to a thinker whose ideas "have profoundly shaped the self-image and progress of people in a rapidly changing world".Recognition…Krista Schlueter for the New York TimesJustice Ginsburg showed off the many collars, called jabots, that she wore with her robes in her chambers in the Supreme Court building in 2016.Recognition…Jonathan Ernst / ReutersIn front of the Supreme Court building, where Justice Ginsburg was quiet, Frankie Frezzell (right) and Lucille Wilson (3) paid tribute to their signature style. As of Friday, Justice Ginsburg became the first woman and first Jewish person to be in the state in the United States Capitol.Recognition…Win Mcnamee / Getty ImagesJustice Ginsburg is coming to the Georgetown University Law Center in 2018.Recognition…Alex Wong / Getty ImagesA young mourner held a picture book about the life of Justice Ginsburg in hand on Wednesday.Recognition…Saul Loeb / Agence France-Presse – Getty ImagesJustice Ginsburg, a famous pop culture figure, has been the inspiration for numerous books and films.Recognition…Joshua Roberts / ReutersJustice Ginsburg in their chambers in 2013.
Recognition…Todd Heisler / The New York TimesAn image of Justice Ginsburg was projected onto the New York State Supreme Court building in Manhattan. Former President George W. Bush said she "loved our country" and "dedicated many of her 87 remarkable years to the pursuit of justice and equality, inspiring more than a generation of women and girls".Recognition…Andrew Kelly / Reuters
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