Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Trump’s latest policy proposal is a direct attack on Justice Ginsburg’s legacy

In a 2014 interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Yahoo News’ Katie Couric briefly paused to relay a question from Notorious RBG co-author Shana Knizhnik. “If there was a case that you could have written the dissenting opinion to that was decided before your time on the bench,” Knizhnik asked, “what would it be, and why?”

The justice responded with two closely related cases, a pair of decisions from the 1970s which held that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is not a form of sex discrimination. “That was as wrong as it could be,” Ginsburg explained. “It’s the ability to become pregnant,” she added, “that differentiates women from men. And, for the Court to seize upon that characteristic and say that it had nothing to do gender was amazing — astonishing.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-latest-policy-proposal-is-a-direct-attack-on-justice-ginsburg-s-legacy-74d82027c9f6#.69plbrcom


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