Who was Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
A: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until
her death in 2020.
Who was she nominated by?
A: She was nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Who did she replace?
A: Retiring justice Byron White.
At the time was generally viewed as a moderate what?
A: Consensus-builder.
She eventually became part of wing of the Court as the
Court shifted to the right over time?
A: The liberal wing.
Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second
woman to serve on the Court, after whom?
A: Sandra Day O'Connor.
Where was Ginsburg born?
A: In Brooklyn, New York.
Her older sister died when she was a what?
A: A baby.
Her mother died shortly before Ginsburg did what?
A: Graduated from high school.
Where did she earn her bachelor's degree?
A: At Cornell University.
Who did she marry?
A: Martin D. Ginsburg.
She became a mother before starting what?
A: Law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class.
Ginsburg transferred to what law school?
A: Columbia Law School.During the early 1960s she worked with the Columbia Law
School Project on what?
A: International Procedure.
She also learned Swedish and co-authored a book with
whom?
A: Swedish jurist Anders Bruzelius.
Her work in Sweden profoundly influenced her thinking
on what?
A: Gender equality.
Where did she then become a professor?
A; At Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure
as one of the few women in her field.
Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate
for what?
A: Gender equality and women's rights.
She won many arguments before what?
A: The Supreme Court.
She advocated as a volunteer attorney for who?
A: The American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to what?
A: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she
served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993.
Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the
appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only what?
A: The only female justice on the Supreme Court.
During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with
her dissents, notably in what case?
A: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007).
Ginsburg's dissenting opinion was credited with
inspiring what?
A: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which was signed into law by President
Barack Obama in 2009, making it easier for employees to win pay
discrimination claims.
Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture
for her what?
A: Her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting
paradigmatically liberal views of the law.
Despite two bouts with cancer and public pleas from
liberal law scholars, she decided not to retire in
2013 or 2014 when
Democrats could do what?
A: Appoint her successor.
Where and when did Ginsburg die?
A: At her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87,
from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
The vacancy created by her death was filled 39 days
later by whom?
A: Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative.