Ruth Bader Ginsburg Facts
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Facts
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Interesting Ruth Bader Ginsburg Facts: |
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Ruth's childhood nickname was "Kiki." |
Although the Bader family was not very religious, Ruth learned Hebrew at an early age and once served as rabbi at a Jewish children's summer camp. |
After completing law school with good grades and recommendations, Ginsburg was turned down for clerk position with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter because she was a woman. |
Ginsburg taught law at a number of different universities during the 1960s and 1970s. |
While doing research for a book in Sweden in the early 1960s, Ginsburg became enamored and influenced by the Nordic nation's progressive views toward women's rights. |
She co-founded the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1972 |
As a lawyer during the 1970s, Ginsburg argued many important gender discrimination cases, including a Missouri law that held jury duty was optional for women. |
Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court by President William Clinton in 1993 and confirmed by the Senate 96 to 3 on August 3, 1993. |
In recent years, the Supreme Court often votes on a 5 to 4, conservative to liberal division: Ginsburg often writes the dissenting liberal opinion. |
During her time on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg has occasionally referred to international law in her opinions. |
Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia in 1996, which ruled that the Virginia Military Institute could not exclude women. |
She is thought to be the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex wedding. |
Ginsburg is twice a cancer survivor, having beat colon cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer in 2009. |
Ginsburg has recently criticized President Donald Trump, but later apologized for the remarks. |
Ruth has received many awards and accolades throughout her life, including several honorary PhDs and a spot on Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015. |
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