THE JUDGE THAT IMPOSES WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE USA
RGB – the acronym with which everyone here called her, made famous by a biography with that title and an Oscar-winning documentary – died a few weeks after the vote. And now Donald Trump, we must swear, he will do everything to elect yet another Conservative before November 3, well aware of the electoral weight of a choice that could permanently shift to the right that Supreme Court currently made up of 5 republican judges out of nine: a sixth, for mind you, it could influence the legislative and social choices of this country for the next generations.
A liberal veteran of the Supreme Court, nominated by Bill Clinton in 1993, Bader Ginsburg was considered a feminist icon: and she was so popular that she had her face printed on bags and t-shirts, while her famous embroidered collars, worn on the black toga , by now they were also trendy. While his every public release was welcomed by standing ovation.
America mourns Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump: “Formidable woman”. Biden: “Sad news, she was loved.” Hillary: “Never anyone like her”
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“I’m not asking for favors for my sex, I’m just asking that they stop trampling on us”: his most famous court statement had been a lifelong motto. Born into a Jewish immigrant family, graduated from Harvard in 1955 who had just started AD admitting women (she was one of the top 9 out of 500 male colleagues), after graduation she was long unable to practice because no one wanted to hire a female lawyer. .
And so she made her way initially by holding a university course on “gender and law”: thus becoming a pioneer of feminism. In the courtrooms he arrived only in the early 70s: winning the first cause of sexual discrimination, the famous one Frontier versus Richardson, supporting the reasons of an Air Force lieutenant discriminated against by male colleagues for compensation reasons. Then, later on, he asked for sexual discrimination to be equated with racial discrimination.
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The political consequences of RBG’s death
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Constantly committed to defending women’s rights wherever they were violated, her life was a succession of social battles: from the right to abortion to gay marriage, from immigration to health care for all. The other phrase that characterizes it is then: “I disagree”. So many times repeated in those witty opinions that he put in writing opposing certain decisions of the Supreme Court.
Liberal Supreme Court judge: “Cancer is back, but I stay in my place”
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To be honest, in 2015 Barack Obama he had quietly invited her to resign, due to her advanced age, hoping to make her give way to a younger colleague of proven democratic faith. But at the time she had pretended not to understand and had repeated it to the end: “Work gives me the strength to live.” On her deathbed in Washington, surrounded by her family, however, she expressed one last wish: “My last and fervent will is not to be replaced until there is a new president in the White House.”
The fragile pasionaria of the United States Supreme Court
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From tomorrow, we can swear, for his chair it will be open war. Also because when the conservative judge suddenly died in February 2016 Antonin Scalia and Barack Obama appointed the judge Merrick Garland, the Republican majority in the Senate, led by the Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell he refused to consider the candidacy and approve it, claiming that Obama was at the end of his presidency (it would expire almost a year later, on January 20, 2017).
In reality, there is no such regulation and the Republicans know this well. Just a few days ago Trump announced that he had drawn up a list with about 20 names of eligible constitutional judges. Among these are the ultra-conservative senators Ted Cruz, of Texas e Tom Cotton, of Arizona. Very little is missing from the elections. And we’ll see who wins
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