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Marin K Levy
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Marin K Levy
@marinklevy
Professor of Law, @DukeLaw; Academic Director of @BolchJudicial. Mother of sons & spinner of ⚖️🧵s. See, also, @marinklevy.bsky.social and 🧵@marinklevy
- 50 years ago this month, Columbia Law School hired its 1st woman tenured law professor in its history. The professor? Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- On this day - August 3rd - in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed to a seat on the Supreme Court by a vote of 96 to 3. (Let’s say that last part again - by a vote of 96 to 3.)
- Two years ago on this day – Sept. 18th – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. (May her memory be a blessing.)
- So we know that Griswold v. CT was the landmark case that established the constitutional right to contraception for married couples. And we know who CT is. But who was Griswold? Well, that would be Estelle Griswold – and you're going to love her, I just know it . . . (⚖️🧵⏰)
- Justice Kagan, Monday night: "Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves . . . when they instead stray into places where it looks like they're an extension of the political process or when they're imposing their own personal preferences." msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
- Replying to @marinklevySo this week, forty-one years after Stelle Griswold passed away, I say . . . Here's to remembering and celebrating those who fought for the rights of others – And here's to remembering and celebrating those who fought to change the world. ❤️ (fin)
- The student's open letter (following the event) is published here:
- Here is an end-of-Term story that I love so well (and hope you will too). Nearly 50 years ago, (now Judge) Marsha Berzon was finishing up her year clerking for the great Justice Brennan (the 1st woman to do so). She brought her 3-year-old 👦 on her last day to say goodbye . . .
- Thirty years ago on this day — June 14th — President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
- Justice Sotomayor’s Princeton Yearbook photo. And her senior quote? “I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won.” (Norman Thomas)
- If this is not a model of judicial temperament on display, I don't know what is.
- Thinking of Justice Ginsburg on what would have been her 90th birthday. (On this day – March 15th – in 1933, Joan Ruth Bader was born.)
- “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” - Rushdie
