it was about a woman named sally reed. she was divorced when her son was -- of tender years, so sally got custody. when the boy got to be a teenager, the father said he now needs to be prepared for a man's world, so i want him to live with me. sally thought that was a bad idea. to cut part of the story short, the boy one day took out one of his father's many rifles and killed himself. so sally wanted to be appointed administer of his estate, not because there was any monetary gain, but for sentimental reasons. he had a guitar, some clothes, a record collection, a small bank account. that was it. her former husband applied to be administrator a couple of weeks later. and sally thought she would get the appointment, because she applied first. but the probate court judge said the law leaves me no choice. it reads as between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent's estate, males must be preferred to females. just that simple. well, let me compare 1971, when sally's case was decided by a unanimous court headed by chie

these were people everyday people like sally reed. what we wanted, we wanted to have cases with people everyday people so the court could see the arbitrariness of the gender lines in the law. one of those important pieces -- cases was stephen weiss and felt case. some people criticize me for bringing men's rights cases. well, let me describe stevens casey and let you decide whether it's a women sex case or men's rights case for people's rights case. stephen was married to a high school math teacher. she had a healthy pregnancy. she talked into her ninth month. she went to the hospital to give birth and the doctor came out and told steven, you have a healthy baby boy but your wife died of an embolism. so steven vowed that he would not work full-time until the child was in school full-time. and he figured he could make it between social security benefits and what he is allowed to earn on top of those benefits. he went to the local social security office to apply for what he thought were benefits for a sole surviving parent with a child

sally? hairy reed tweeting on republican efforts. away from real threats so that republicans can deport dreamers? and darrell issa heard all of that and he doesn't know where to start. >> i will start with the fact that you mentioned pork was discussed and that he went to the house of representatives. [laughter] >> i did, indeed. i wonder what you think was really going on here with what the president so what if did you make of that? >> i would think that harry reid is delusional. but if we want to secure the borders and make sure that the working population is here deporting at least some people that are here illegally and not giving a blanket pass to some 5 million people. >> did you notice he didn't say immigrants families reign and it was very carefully worded. >> you know, if an al qaeda cell comes over the mexican border, i would certainly hope that we are looking at the border and looking at our priorities and saying, okay, we do want to stop the most dangerous terrorists and drug dealers and human traffickers. but we also wan

in the 70s there was kind of a dialogue going back and forth between the court would say side sally reeds case and then some changes in the laws and then steven wisenfeld's case and then more changes in the law -- the court and the legislature were working kind of in tandem at that time. but i would stress that first you need popular support. that is what existed in the 70s. it didn't exist before that. and when while all this was going on and these cases were being brought to court, the states were reviewing their law books to eliminate arbitrary agenda classifications. congress did the same. so don't think about the court as your first audience. people have to want to have a change. >> this has really been extraordinary. we have a small token of our appreciation. and i have to say the privilege of listening to you and the wisdom that we are all benefitting from. i'm so grateful. and now we are all so grateful. i'd like to lead us all in a round of applause and thanks for justice ginsburg. >> that is lovely. thank you. [ applause ] >> such an honor. thank you so much. we have now a celeb