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1 - Notes on a Life

from Part I - Shaping a Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

By
Nina Totenberg
Edited by
Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
Affiliation:
University of California, Hastings, College of Law
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Early in the fall of 1971, I was pretty new to the Supreme Court beat, and I came upon a brief that I simply could not understand. The brief argued that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the law applied not just to racial minorities, but also to women. “How can that be?” I wondered, since the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted after the Civil War specifically to protect African Americans.

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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg , pp. 5 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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