![]() ![]() There's Ginsburg the night-owl workaholic, taking President Bill Clinton's 1993 phone call offering the Supreme Court nomination shortly before midnight, after the president had watched an NBA basketball game that went into triple overtime. Tipped off by her tax attorney husband, Martin, to a Colorado man's obscure challenge involving the otherwise mundane Internal Revenue Code, she broke out into a broad smile and said, "Let's take it!" ![]() There's Ginsburg the appellate lawyer, winning a series of precedent-setting cases in the 1970s on gender equality. From O'Connor, she learned to "waste no time on anger, regret or resentment, just get the job done" from Scalia, to attack ideas, not people, because "some very good people have some very bad ideas." ![]() There is Ginsburg the friend and mentor, recalling her relationships with Republican nominees Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. In My Own Words, a collection of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's writings and speeches dating back to the eighth grade, the woman now known as "Notorious R.B.G." comes across not as the rock-star liberal jurist her adoring fans celebrate, but a cool cucumber in the white-hot world of Washington, a voice of reason speaking up for civility. ![]()
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