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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Courts - "Martin Ginsburg's Legacy: Love Of Justice"
Listen to NPR's Nina Totenberg's report this morning: Martin Ginsburg's Legacy: Love Of Justice. It begins:
On the last day of the Supreme Court term, less than 24 hours after her husband had died, an ashen-faced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced her opinion for the court in one of the term's major cases. She was on the bench, she told colleagues, because "Marty would have wanted it this way."The Ginsburg marriage was one of those marvels of life, a 56-year marathon of love and support.
Martin D. Ginsburg met Ruth Bader on a blind date at Cornell. She was 17; he a year older. As he would later put it, she was a "top student." He was a "top golfer."
That characterization belied his intellect, and she would often say that he was the only person she ever dated who was interested in her brain.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 3, 2010 10:24 AM
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