Earlier this summer, Supreme Court Justice and renowned BAMF Ruth Bader Ginsburg published a 35-page dissent condemning the Court for siding with Hobby Lobby over the rights of “thousands of women.” Ginsburg’s righteous, angry rhetoric was what kept me personally from despairing entirely over the mandate–Ginsburg’s writing proved that someone on Capitol Hill was advocating for women, and doing so with cut-throat, undeniable brilliance.
Unsurprisingly, Hobby Lobby wasn’t the first time in her legal career that Ginsburg has used her mighty pen to chastise infringements on freedom, and now American Way has compiled a collection of some of her greatest legal writing from cases where it was needed the most. An undeniably large portion of the papers are over my head, but I’ll be a better person for absorbing some of them, and the world is obviously greater for having them in it.
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