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âFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In a year already marked with so much pain and loss, we learned this evening that we have lost the incomparable, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The world feels a little less bright and a little less hopeful without a shero like RBG. But, Justice Ginsburg would not want us to move ahead in sorrow. She would want us to lift up her ideals of how America can be better, can be just, can be great. Ruth Bader Ginsburg BELIEVED in equity, and for this, we must continue her fight.
A Brooklyn native, Justice Ginsburg was born to immigrant parents like so many of us. She grew up in a family that valued reading and hard work, and, her mother wanted her to have the education she had not been able to acquire. Justice Ginsburg attended Harvard Law School, where she was one of 9 women in a class of 500 men, but transferred and graduated from Columbia Law School. RBG was not offered a job following graduation, like her male classmates, so she taught the law instead. She joined the ACLU, where she led the Womenâs Rights Project. Justice Ginsburg argued six gender discrimination cases in front of the Supreme Court in the mid 1970s, and won five of them. She argued several cases, before joining the Court of Appeals, and then joining this prestigious Supreme Court bench herself, as only the second woman in U.S. history to do so.
In 1996, Justice Ginsburg wrote the decision which struck down the male-only admission policy at the Virginia Military Institute and established a new standard of review for sex discrimination cases. In 2006, she wrote a scathing dissent of the Lily Ledbetter decision, setting the foundation of the eventual Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law by President Obama. In 2013, she read her dissent from the bench in anger over her colleagues' gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the impacts which we are seeing right now. During that session, she also was in the majority on Windsor v. U.S, striking down DOMA. This summer, Ginsburg sided with the transgender community in Bostock vs. Clayton County ending discrimination on the basis of gender in the workplace.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was present in the fight for justice at every point in her life. She changed the legal landscape for women now and into the future. Her brilliance and skill has brought justice to women and recognition to the fact that seeing women and men as unequal harms us all. She changed the way the world views equity and justice. Her life is an inspiration to so many women and girls, and to us all.
We owe it to her, and all the heroes who have come and gone, to fight our best for what is right in this world. We must seek out equity and fight injustice when we see it. We have this chance today and tomorrow and every day forward. We have this chance in November.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has earned this homegoing through a life well-lived. May her memory be both a blessing and a revolution. Long Live RBG.
Michael
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