From Newsweek S Archive Bill Clinton Selects Ruth Bader Ginsburg But What Kind Of Judge Will She Be
As a lawyer in the late ’60s and ’70s, Ginsburg was every bit the rebel, taking on the gender discrimination that the American legal system had long countenanced. She had seen it herself at Harvard law school: despite a glowing recommendation from the dean, Justice Felix Frankfurter turned her down for a clerkship in 1960 simply because he wasn’t ready to hire a woman. From 1973 to 1979, Ginsburg argued six women’s rights cases before the Supreme Court, winning five....