i ruth bader ginsburg do solemnly swear. that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. many justices are respected ruth bader ginsburg made a mark as a pop culture icon as well. after sandra day o'connor's retirement ginsburg was the lone woman on the bench. she was soon joined by justice sotomayor and justice kagan. in 2015 maya weinstock immortalized them as the legal justice league in lego. justice ginsburg was famed for her collegiality and her ability to separate work from friendships. ruth bader ginsburg and justice antonin scalia maintained a long friendship, even though they were in disagreement on any number of issues before the court. ginsburg is famed for saying that you should fight for the things you care about but do it in a way that will make people want to join you and that includes maintaining the court's long tradition of collegiality. so they're dissenting never got in the way of their friendship. this illustration

i, ruth bader ginsburg, do solemnly swear...was president bill clinton who nominated her to the supreme court in 1993. in the hearing she defended a woman's right to choose an abortion. she became only the second female justice in history, defying those concerned about her age. i was aged 60 when i was nominated. and some people thought i was too old for the job. well now i am into my 27th, starting my 27th year on the court, so i am one of the longest tenured justices. so if you worried about my age... it was unnecessary. laughs. ruth bader ginsburg was a powerful author of legal opinions. when the court ruled in favour of george w bush in 2000, effectively deciding the presidential election in his favour, she famously wrote the dissent. as more conservative justices were appointed to the court in recent years, her dissenting opinions were more frequent, and her legacy became clear. 0n the court she continued to legitimise and extend the rights of women. in the workplace, in education, in all walks of life. but beyond that, she

justice ruth bader ginsburg's life was one of many vergs of the american dream. rant, her mother worked as a book keeper in brooklyn. ruth used to ask, what is the difference between a book keeper in brooklyn and a supreme court justice? her answer, one generation. it has been said that ruth wanted to be a opra, she chose the law. she was a woman, ruth would grow to become the leading advocate fighting such discrimination in court. she was not an opra star, but found her stage, right behind me in our courtroom. she won famous victories, moving our country to equal justice under law, women are now a majority in law school, not a handful. later, a star on the bench where she conquering and dissenting opinion, will steer the court for decades, they are written with the unaffected grace of precision. her voice in court and conference room was soft. when she spoke, people listened. among the words that best describe ruth, tough, brave, a fighter, a winner. also thoughtful, careful, compassionate, honest. when it came to opera, passionate. when it came to sports, cluele

supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. john roberts saying our nation has lost a jurist jurist juristt stature. "world news tonight" begins now. >>> good evening as we come on the air in the west. we begin with the breaking headline, the death of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. a pioneer of women's rights and gender equality. she died surrounded by family in washington, d.c. dominated by president clinton in 1993, she has had a number of health challenges in recent years. each time fighting and returning to the court. but we've learned she passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer. she was 83 years old. what does this mean, 46 days until the presidential election? we begin with juju chang, and justice ginsburg, the indelible mark she left on the country. >> reporter: ruth bader ginsburg was a force to be reckoned with. >> all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off of our necks. >> reporter: barely five feet tall, but a liberal giant. only the second female justice named on the supreme c

he chosen ruth. >> i am proud to nominate judge ruth bader ginsburg. >> judge ruth bader ginsburg madeto her mother who had been denied of education so many years earlier. >> i pray that i may be all she would have been, had she lived in an age when daughters are cherished as much as sons. >> she still had to be confirmed by the senate. >> the degree of drama was much smaller than it is than the recent nomination. it was all civil. >> even on hot button issues like abortion. >> i am never going to please all the people all the time on this issue, i can only try to say what is my position. >> i agree with you. >> you have been and i agree with that. i admire you personally. this is more important. >> it seems so far today but her biggest advocate during the confirmation hearing was oren hatch. this conservative senator from utah. >> she's qualified and temperament. >> she became the second female supreme court justice in the nation's history after o' conner. >> the senate overwhelmingly confirmed ruth bader ginsburg, the vote was 96-3. >> my hope is i would live to see the day when the

what do you know about ruth bader ginsburg 's first days? >> guest: we heard earlier michele obama reached out to get data on being a good first lady. there is a lot of stuff that is oral tradition and you have to learn it from somebody and sandra day o'connor taught a lot of to ruth bader ginsburg. she went to her chambers and explained how to do the lighting so it would be a softer and more pleasant environment to work in. and the etiquette of arguments. there were many unspoken ways in which o'connor helped ginsburg to be a success because o'connor wanted ginsburg to be a success. >> guest: is ruth bader ginsburg going to miss her buddy? >> guest: she misses her so much. someone asked gins how sneelt in 2006 and she said lonely. she really missed sandra day o'connor in a thousand ways. here is a really cool way o'connor was of enormous value to ginsburg. she was senior by the time that -- by the end of her term she was very seen knior and the think in order of seniority. so by 1993 when ginsburg came on, o'connor was very senior. she spok

think -- thank ruth bader ginsburg. i have a daughter who became a to the wonderful things that ruth bader ginsburg did for women. republicans -- i hope there is enough compassion until they to wait election is over and we have a new president. i hope it is joe biden. -- she did so much for this country and i admire her so every woman in my family admires her a great deal. host: let's go to larry who was calling from resto, tennessee. good morning. yes, i feel like people like her only come by a few times in a lifetime. , fair, andonderful honest justice. there ain't enough verbs in the english dictionary to describe mitch mcconnell. mark, jesus, what kind of human being is he? let's go to tom from virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to extend my condolences. will -- we hope the republicans will behave the right way. the last caller said, few people come along in a lifetime who have as much influence over american culture and the history of our country as women and men ultimately of the caliber of jus

we have not erased gender-based inequality and ruth bader ginsburg knew that well. some of the legal victories for equal justice at sea and others achieved are now threatened. now have been diminished outright. her concern about these threats was the basis for some of her most famous and fiery dissents and why this often quiet soft-spoken woman took the unusual step many times of reading her dissent from the bench, she wanted us to understand what was at stake so we could join her in the fight. that is what she did in 2007 case of lily versus u.s. tire.ily versus the supreme court ruled that the woman paid less than her mail coworkers forrs years to be exactly the same work, could not sue her former employer for wageor discrimination. the woman only learned about the pay gap after she retired. but a conservative majority than on the court, ruled that she had lost her chance at justice by failing to sue within six months of her first unequal paycheck. inal her dissent, justice ginsburg challenge congress to correct this injustice, and we did. the very first law signe

ruth bader ginsburg is still doing it. i think that is why people are saying with a tone of surprise which i resent that this supreme court biography is actually a page turner. this book is actually a page turner. a reader's blog called readerly published tuesday a column called eight books we love and said linda hirshman's book may look in imposing but she presents the subject in such a rich engaging manner that the pages will fly. what an engaging story i had, republican, democrat, isolated cattle ranch, a goldwater girl, anti mccarthy liberal, blonde, brunette, what could be a deeper divide and that. i am not going to tell you all the cool things i found in the three years i worked on the book looking at their letters including some letters that had never been looked at by a writer before. and published letters just like something from a henry james short story. interviewing everyone who had up paul's. consider the bare facts. sand rat, sandra day o'connor was born in 1930 famously on a ranch in arizona. the nearest sch

she was always -- ruth bader ginsburg. fairness toys in women and large, she was fighting for protecting pre-existing conditions and the issue of people with pre-existing conditions who came down with illnesses who require vast amounts of money. again, the issue with abortion is the same kind of case, if in that we abolish abortions, then pooreople who are hurt are because the rich people will able to get them and have access. it is the poor people, who in the early stages of abortion where they should have the right to be able to make those choices, will no longer able to make those choices and have them imposed on them and whose peoples -- whose -- and peoples opinions who are imposed on them. that is very unfortunate. host: just talked to mike who is coming from maryland. good morning. i am not the most religious person in the world, but ms. ginsberg, judge before she could see the new jewish year, you might say, you really listen to spooky stuff. i think that we ought to was inr that since she the hospital twice and be

mark, your reaction, first of all, to ruth bader ginsburg's death? certainly, she will have an extraordinary legacy when it comes to protecting individual rights in the united states, her long history as an advocate for the civil liberties union and then of course as a supreme court justice, pushing freely for women's rights, abortion rights, voting rights, but she spent much of her career on the supreme court on the minority side, the losing side, so she was known in the end more for herfiery dissent on was known in the end more for her fiery dissent on behalf of those rights than for any setting of new direction in the law, but politically, her legacy will be much more mixed, there will be serious questions raised as historians look back at her decision in 2016 not to resign from the court and give president barack 0bama another opportunity to nominate a liberal justice, but opportunity to nominate a liberaljustice, but rather to cling to her seat despite her poor health and so to give, as we now find, donald trump a third crack at adding a conserv

ruth bader ginsburg makes her mark. and so it's the classic i descent from justice scalia and then the retort. no i descent justice ginsburg replies and there of course friendship despite being on opposite side of the ideological and often juris prudence and political perspectives. the justices were of course famously friendly and of course bonded over opera. maybe speak to us a bit about this friendship and what it teaches us about your mother. maybe jane you can go first. a well one of her famous quotes is that one could disagree without being disagreeable and that was certainly true of their relationship. they really had a very deep and long-standing affection for many years. they would spend new years together. not just the four of them, but also many children a lot more on his side than that on ours, and it's time with buy some grandchildren as well at the new year's gatherings that my father would cook and occasionally justice scalia would shoot and kill the main course and sometimes requiring much advanced prepar

ruth bader ginsburg did not simply take opportunities afforded to women. more than perhaps any american in history, she helped to create those opportunities. loretta and i offer our deepest condolences to her friends and family, help her daughter jane, her son james, her grandchildren and great-granddaughter. may her memory be a blessing and may her life be a guiding light for all of us. madam president, i ask consent that the next statement be placed in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: madam president, americans across the nation were shocked and deaf stated when -- devastated when they heard the news of justice ginsburg's passing. the gravity of that announcement hit hard, not because just the loss of a national icon; because of the sense of foreboding of what would happen next right here in this chamber. in the united states senate. the year 2020 has already brought us so much pain and anguish much the pandemic that is killed 200,000 americans, sickened over six million. devastating job losses and econ

ruth bader ginsburg, tireless and resolute champion of justice. overnight we saw hundreds of people show up to pay their respects outside the court. there is a growing -- a few people coming early this morning, funeral arrangements in the coming days and we heard from donald trump as he left the campaign rally in minnesota. the white house putting out a statement writing renowned for brilliant minds, one can disagree without being disagreeable. there are different points of view, there's a growing conversation what comes next, a vacancy on the supreme court, the president living so close, we are hearing from those who will likely be in charge including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who put out a statement praising ginsburg's legacy, we will keep the promise. on the floor of the united states senate. the question will remain will the rest of the senate go along. following the pandemic, the supreme court will be an issue that dominates voters outside the ongoing emergency. among those pushing for the senate texas senator ted cruz. >> report

, to ruth bader ginsburg as a person.arm, intimate words. he reminded everyone that the court was her family too, and it's a reminder to all of us just how different from all other institutions is supreme court is. >> it's a poignant message right now in the supreme court in the center of the discourse, but, you know, i think that the chief justice sort of channeled something that ginsburg has famously said years ago in an interview. how would you like to be remembered? she said, i would like to be remembered as someone who used what talent she had to make the world a little bit better. she did more than make the world just a little bit better, but as the chief justice, she w said, a humble person. we think of what to do in the wake of the loss of justice ginsburg, you know, making the world a little bit better, improving the institutions around us, improving our politics. like, those are really powerful legacies and, you know, if there was a message in what the chief justice said, maybe that is that message. >> we see th

sandra day o'connor and ruth bader ginsburg. this was recorded at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc in 2015. it is about 50 minutes. >> all right. hello, hello. we are going to get started here. welcome to politics and prose. my name is justin. i am the program manager at the store. i can try to speak closer. thank you all for coming out tonight. we are honored to have linda hirshman speaking about "sisters in law". i have a few standard house notes. now would be the time to turn off any electronic devices that might be tempted to be beaten or buzz through the proceedings. she will take questions in the second half of the event. we ask that you use one of two microphones. looks like there's one tonight on my left. that way everyone here can hear it. lastly at the end if you could help us by resting your chairs against something sturdy table clean-up process greatly. now on to linda hirshman, former professor at brandeis university with a law degree from the university of chicago and a ph.d. in philosophy. she practic

a a dear friend of ruth bader ginsburg.a asked ginsburg if she had ever been sexually harassed before she became a judge. thisis was the suprereme court justices answer. >> the answewer is, yes, every woman of my vintage knowsws w wt sexual harassment is -- although, we did not have a name for it. the attitude to sexual to "getnt was simply past it. boys will be boys." well, i will give you just one example. i am taking a chemistry course at cornell, and my instructor uncertataine i was ofy ability in that field -- he said,d, "i will givive you a practicece exam." so he gagave me a practice exam. the next day on the test, , the test is the practice exam. and i know exactly what he wanted in return. and that is just one of many examples. this was not considered anything you could do something about, that the locket help you do something about -- that the law could help you do something about, until a book was written by a then young woman named kitty mackinnon, catherine mackckinnon. it was called "sexual harassment in the w

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[laughter] an aggressive record justice ruth bader ginsburg -- amy: supreme court justice ruth badersburg speaking with nina totenberg. they have known each other for 40 years. she is one of the people interviewed in the new documentary about ruth bader ginsburg that will go throughout the week called rbg. our guests are the films the film's directors and producers. her talknever heard about this, but it is absolutely true that there really was no whenfor sexual harassment ruth bader ginsburg was being discriminated against as a young later all of the women who flooded into the workplace in the 1970's, the sort of felt like, hey, this was the price of entry, something we have to put up with in order to have these fantastic jobs. and it was catherine mackinnon who was really just a young just out of law school -- she may still have been a law school -- when she started working on this concept and wrote this paper that was absolutely seminal, in fact, was quoted by the supreme court in the mid-1980's. some of the exact language that she used. said, itader ginsburg was a revelation. hey

wirire at the letter, becausi was looking for someone to give .e direction she put me in touch with ruth baderurg. ruth had just become co-founder of the women's rights project of the american civil liberties union. they helped us along with the case. amy: and the day the supreme court handed down its unanimous decision in your favor? >> march 19, 1975. 11:30 in the morning. it was a wednesdayay. a neighbhbor called me andnd toe about it. a couple of minutes later, radio station called and i gave the interview. and then ruth was on the phone. there used to be pavements on the highway, phone booths. she stopped at one and called me and gave me the news. her question to me was, h how dd they vote? it was important burden of the decision. the next phone call, she found out it was 8-0. at the douglas being ill time. amy: decades later, she would officiate over your second son we racealso the at home, his wedding, too, jason's wedding g apoplexy aske. in 1998, my son jason married in crowe gables, florida. she came to visit for the weekend. elaineed my second wife in 2014. there we went to the supr

across the country, 1933 ruth bader ginsburg, ruth was born to a modest family. her father was a russian immigrant and he decided to become a for your. she went to school in the day before she graduated from high school her mother died. she was an only child, her sister had died of meningitis many years before. sandra was raised during the critical years as an only child. she went to cornell where they have really wonderful habit of treating women like people, i should know because i went there myself. she to find a mentor, robert cushman, very famous anti- mccarthy voice in the dark, dark days of the mccarthy. she met and married martin ginsburg and they had two children. she followed bonnie to harvard and when he went to practice law she left harvard law school and followed him to columbia. when her high school classmates from flatbush, many of whom were in that class at columbia law school found out that that kiki bader, that was was coming to their law school they heaved a collective sigh. they knew that each one of their class ranks would now go down by one.

newshour's amna nawaz has more on the life and career of justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> serving on this court is the highest honor, the most awesome trust that can be placed in a judge. >> nawaz: she was born ruth joan bader in 1933 in brooklyn, new york to parents of ukrainian and austrian descent. >> what is the differee between a bookkeeper, a new york city garment worker and a supreme court justice. a generation. high own life bears witnesses. the young ruth bader graduated first in her class from cornell university in 1954. that same ar, she married martin ginsburg. he became a lawyer and encouraged her to do the same. >> i have had the great good fortune to share life with a partr truly extraordinary for his generation. a mawho believed at age 18 when we met, that a woman's work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man's. >> nawaz: ginsburg was one of just nine women in her entering class at harvard law school. it was 1956. the dean admonished the women fortaking spots that could have gone to men. despite that, she became the first woman to join the prestigious har

in 1993, one of ruth bader ginsburg's colleagues at columbia, a well-known woman lawyer, was appointed to the general counsel of hhs. so she comes to d.c. and she meets ruth at a party. they've been colleagues at columbia law school and she says to ruth, do you believe this, the with two of us in such high positions, why certainly, ruth and. i have no trouble at all. believing they are entitled to rule, they treated their opponents and their male colleagues as if they were all members of the same elite club. i have a wonderful story in the book about -- that i got from the letters about ruth's correspondens with philip corelin. she treated that jerk who also happened to be my law professor as if they were colleagues. and if she were exactly as well positioned to say what went on as he was. when pressed to admit they were interior they took owe he fence. there's a legendary story about dean irwin grisswold asking the eight women in ruth's class at harvard how they justified taking up the place of a man at a dinner party. she invited the eight women, assigned them male companions from th

i, ruth bader ginsburg, do solemnly swear... it was president bill clinton who nominated her to the supreme court in 1993. in the hearings, she defended a woman's right to choose an abortion. she became only the second female justice in history to find those concerned about her age. in history to find those concerned about her agelj in history to find those concerned about her age. i was age 60 when i was nominated in some people thought i was too old for thejob. well, now i am into my 27th, starting my 27th yearin into my 27th, starting my 27th year in the court, the way in one of the longest tenured justices, so if you are worried about my age, it was unnecessary. ruth bader ginsburg was a powerful author of legal opinions. when the court ruled in favour of george w bush in 2000, effectively deciding the presidential election in his favour, she famously wrote the descent. is more conservative justices were appointed to the court in recent yea rs, appointed to the court in recent years, her dissenting opinions were more frequen

death of ruth bader ginsburg. who is not only a giant in the legal profession, but a beloved figure. and my heart goes out to all those who cared for her and care about her. and she practiced the highest american ideals as a justice. the quality of justice under the law. and ruth bader ginsburg stood for all of us. >> i want to bring in senator amy klobuchar. democrat of minnesota a member of the judiciary committee. senator, hello to you. not all heros wear capes. some wear robes. >> yeah, exactly. justice ginsburg had this unique ability her 80s to be cool. she was someone that young women worshipped. she was someone that they wanted -- i remember my daughter and i when she was in college. we were at an event and had our picture taken and said mom, i hope you don't mind, i have to put her on facebook. i'll cut you out of it. that's because she was the symbol for young women that everything and anything is possible. the second woman appointed to the supreme court. a court she argued before that people had told he

ruth bader ginsburg is still doing it. i think that is why people are saying with a tone of surprise which i resent that this supreme court biography is actually a page turner. this book is actually a page turner. a reader's blog called readerly published tuesday a column called eight books we love and said linda hirshman's book may look in imposing but she presents the subject in such a rich engaging manner that the pages will fly. what an engaging story i had, republican, democrat, isolated cattle ranch, a goldwater girl, anti mccarthy liberal, blonde, brunette, what could be a deeper divide and that. i am not going to tell you all the cool things i found in the three years i worked on the book looking at their letters including some letters that had never been looked at by a writer before. and published letters just like something from a henry james short story. interviewing everyone who had up paul's. consider the bare facts. sand rat, sandra day o'connor was born in 1930 famously on a ranch in arizona. the nearest sch

erin, ruth bader ginsburg was a giant. you spent enormous amount of time with justice ginsburg. >> she was someone who had so much integrity. she was someone you couldn't always read from the outside, but you always knew there were so many thoughts happening inside. when i was, unfortunately, having to write the essay that ran today for her obituary for new york magazine. thinking about how one of her most incredible qualities was her mind. her ability to think creatively and innovative about how to get to gender equality. she was strategic. she was smart. but she also with wasn't just worked towards women's equality. she liked to say she was working for women's and men's liberation. i don't think she would have thought about such an expansive vision of equality. so she was someone who, both, had a loving marriage and loved to go to the opera. loved to laugh at boisterous jokes. while, also, having this deep commitment to justice and the law. >> erin, i also want to ask you. she dictated a statement to her granddaughter, w

president trump reacting with surprise over the passing of ruth bader ginsburg friday night. >> ruth bader ginsburg passed away. >> she just died? >> yes. >> wow. i didn't know that. you are telling me now for the first time. she led an amazing life. what else can you say? she was an amazing woman. whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. actually i'm saddened to hear that. i'm upset to hear that. >> reporter: as word of her death sent shock waves around the country, the president was speaking at a campaign rally in minnesota. unaware of ginsburg's passing. as a supporter shouted the news. >> the next president will get one, two, three or four supreme court justices. i had two. many presidents have had none. because they are there for a long time. >> ginsburg is dead. >> ruth bader ginsburg stood for all of us. >> reporter: democratic presidential nominee joe biden speaking to reporters after returning from his campaign trip to minnesota on friday. >> we should focus on the loss of the justice and her enduring legacy. there is no doubt, let me be cl

ruth bader ginsburg, only the second woman ever to serve on the supreme court, has died at the age of 87. a towering figure who fought for women's equal rights from day one. >> contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places, only as one-at-a-time performers. >> ginsburg, a key member of the court's liberal block through the decades, also a pop culture icon, the subject of books, documentaries, and movies. >> 65 years ago, it would have been unimaginable that my daughter would aspire to a career. and while americans mourn her passing, this morning, the fight has already begun over filling her seat on the nation's highest court. ginsburg saying on her deathbed, the decision should be left to the next president, but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he's ready to move ahead, as a battle brews in washington, we'll look back at ruth bader ginsburg's life and the legacy she leaves behind. today, saturday, september 19th, 2020. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander, kristen welker, and d

across the country in 1933 ruth bader ginsburg, well, ruth, was born to a modest family in flatbush. her father was a russian immigrant and he decided just as the depression dawned to become a furrier, not a brilliant idea. she went to school at the day before she graduated from high school her mother died. she was an only child to her sister had died of meningitis many years before so she was raised during the critical years as an only child. she went to cornell where they have a really wonderful hazard of treating women as equals. i went there myself. she, too, found a mentor, robert cushman, a very famous anti-mccarthy voice in the dark, dark days of the mccarthy period, which are mentor. she met and married martin ginsburg and their two children in the ensuing years. she followed marty to harbor him when he went to new york to practice law, she left harvard law school and followed him to columbia. when her high school classmates from flatbush, many of whom who were in that class at columbia law school, right, found out that -- she was going to law school to finish up with them, t

i ruth bader ginsburg do solemnly swear. that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. many justices are respected ruth bader ginsburg made a mark as a pop culture icon as well. after sandra day o'connor's retirement ginsburg was the lone woman on the bench. she was soon joined by justice sotomayor and justice kagan. in 2015 maya weinstock immortalized them as the legal justice league in lego. justice ginsburg was famed for her collegiality and her ability to separate work from friendships. ruth bader ginsburg and justice antonin scalia maintained a long friendship, even though they were in disagreement on any number of issues before the court. ginsburg is famed for saying that you should fight for the things you care about but do it in a way that will make people want to join you and that includes maintaining the court's long tradition of collegiality. so they're dissenting never got in the way of their friendship. this illustration