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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has Died

The Glorious RBG

Her lucky break in the working world came because no other man wanted the job of writing a book about Swedish civil procedure, and the world might have been different if she were sent anywhere else. In Sweden, she lived on her own for the first time, weeks on end, and absorbed a public debate over what the point of women’s liberation was if men stayed exactly the same. There was a lag time, though, such that when she came back and got a job teaching law at Rutgers, she swallowed the unapologetically lower pay (Marty had a good salary, the dean told her) and hid her second pregnancy under baggy clothes until she had a renewed contract in hand.

One reason Ginsburg might have been reluctant to retire is that like many women of her generation, it took so long for her to get a chance, and even longer for her to become the person she was supposed to be. She did not even begin to be a “flaming feminist litigator,” as she would later describe herself, until she was 37 years old. That year, 1970, she taught Rutgers’s first class on women and the law at the prodding of insurgent female law students, and took on the cases of women whose letters piled up at the local ACLU affiliate.

It was a neat intergenerational relay. If younger women pushed her to take less shit, the work of the women who came before her provided a blueprint. In a mere month of reading everything on women and the law at the library, she discovered that the law had for a century enshrined discrimination by treating it as a favor, the same thing she’d been told her whole life. In the next decade, she would co-found the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and embark on an audacious legal strategy to transform the constitutional understanding of gender.
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For anyone looking to channel some rage into something productive, I highly recommend donating to this fund which splits your donation amongst several Democratic candidates in closely contested races around the country.

 
It seems perfectly American that so much responsibility for upholding American liberty had fallen upon an 87yo women with multiple bouts with cancer. Our political culture is quite literally unsustainable

 
Highland Deac said:
I do think we're reaching a point at which some kind of major reform is going to have to be made in how we choose federal and SC judges, or it's going to completely wreck the Court's legitimacy and effectiveness as an institution. If most Americans simply see the federal courts (and Supreme Court) as little more than extreme partisan instruments for imposing the will of one party on everyone else, you're eventually going to have violence and mass refusals to obey decisions, with all the ugliness that entails. A great many other once-venerated and respected institutions have already fallen into disgrace and disrepute, and it appears the SC may be about to join them. It has already taken several hits, of course, but this could be the event that finally ends for good the notion that it has become anything other than a mere political instrument for enacting a hard-right social and economic agenda that is at odds with an increasing majority of Americans.
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I'm am an attorney and I 100% agree with this. And the Federalist Society is one of the most culpable parties. They've basically been grooming judicial candidates that will impose conservative law.
 
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Deacfreak07 said:
How much reform is possible with a simple majority?
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You can get rid of the filibuster with a simple majority. Once that is done, you can expand the court with a simple majority. You can approve the new justices with a simple majority. You can also add new states to the union with a simple majority.

So if you’re willing to shatter norms there is a lot you can do.
 
Then, while pubs are distracted with their whining, split California in 3 (gerrymandered, of course) to guarantee another 4 senators. Step on their neck.
 
birdman said:
Ok, why do you think there are two Virginias?
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West Virginia broke away as a union state after Virginia succeeded. Political but not naked like the Dakotas.
 
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