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Nina Totenberg
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NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent DINNERS WITH RUTH out now: bit.ly/3QfcWjp
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Dec 1, 2025
    Just in time to be the perfect present for the holidays AND support NPR....My NPR Tote bag is back! shopnpr.org/products/nina-…
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 19, 2020
    A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous. And so it was that #RBG died as the sun was setting last night marking the beginning of RoshHashanah
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Jul 15, 2020
    RBG home from hospital. Details to follow
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 17, 2019
    The world will be a lesser place without my darling friend, Cokie Roberts, who died early this morning. I said good-bye last night. Told her I'd see her on the other side some day, where I know she will still be a star.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Jun 26, 2018
    Without audio of today’s announcement, there is no way to replicate Sotomayor’s fury in a 20-minute dissent from the bench re: today’s travel ban decision
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 29, 2020
    Women from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, & Space Force salute #RBG as her remains enter Arlington National Cemetery for burial. They are standing in front of the Memorial For Military Women.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Mar 4, 2019
    RBG sends not so subtle message @Scotus today, summarizing not 1 but 2 opinions she authored--including 1 in a case heard while she was home recuperating from surgery. She now has produced 4 opinions, more than any other justice this term.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 19, 2020
    How I first met #RBG on the phone 48 years ago, and more
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    A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call
    NPR's Nina Totenberg first encountered law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971. They became close friends after Ginsburg moved to Washington to serve on the federal appeals court.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 19, 2020
    #RBG changed the way world is for American women.
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    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
    Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Nov 11, 2022
    OMG! #FedSoc tries to muzzle 1 of its own leaders! See transcript of interview I did this A.M. w Steve Calabresi abt his ISL brief at #SCOTUS
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Oct 2, 2018
    Trump is again saying that #Kavanaugh was #1 in his class at Yale. In fact at Yale coll, he grad cum laude--not among the top 22%, but among the next 24%. Yale Law Sch. does not rank students at all.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 4, 2019
    NO KIDDING! 15,500 people packed the Verizon Arena in Little Rock, where I interviewed #RBG. Not a ticket left. And 16,000 on the waitlist.
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Jan 18, 2024
    You may have wondered where I've been. I had emergency back surgery in mid Dec., followed by 4 wks in rehab literally hoisted by harnesses, learning to walk again & gaining my strength back. I'm home now & expect to be back at SCOTUS in the very early spring. I've missed you too!
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    Nina Totenberg
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    Sep 19, 2020
    Days before her death, as her strength waned, #RBG dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a newPresident is installed." She knew what was to come.
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    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
    Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.