by Irin Carmon
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 22
Dellinger, Walter, 112
Dershowitz, Alan, 86
dissents, 1–3, 5, 127–49
Dixon, Dean, 166
Doe v. Bolton, 19, 64, 67
Domingo, Placido, 161, 167
Donovan, Carrie, 162
Douglas, William O., 16, 105
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 127
Dunham, Lena, 7
Duren v. Missouri, 74–75
E
Edwards v. Healy, 74–75
Elliott, Heather, 105
Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, 12, 140
“equal citizenship stature,” 4, 5, 43
Equal Pay Act of 1963, 18
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 50–51
Escoffier Cookbook, 100
exercise routine, 151–52, 153–59
F
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), 83
Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, 13
Feigen, Brenda, 45, 58, 63–64, 75
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 48
Ferguson, Carr, 31, 78
Fial, Anita, 29, 172
Fifteenth Amendment, 144
Finkbine, Sherri, 41
Fisher v. University of Texas, 148–49
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 32, 32–33, 99–100, 167
Fourteenth Amendment, 15, 17, 51, 54, 128, 144
Frankfurter, Felix, 38–39, 53, 57, 90
Friedan, Betty, 48, 61
Frontiero, Sharron, 43–44, 59–60
Frontiero v. Richardson, 43–46, 59–60, 93
G
Gavin, Beth, 184–85
Geduldig v. Aiello, 69, 74–75
Gellhorn, Walter, 62
General Electric (GE), 69
General Electric v. Gilbert, 69, 74–75
Georgetown University, 103
Gerber, Hazel, 37
Ginsburg, Evelyn, 31, 32, 33, 48, 102, 166–67
Ginsburg, James, 9, 98
birth of, 18, 48
death of father, 107
family life, 97, 100, 102–3, 103
Ginsburg, Jane, 40, 98, 172
birth of, 17
death of father, 107
family life, 34, 36, 36, 47, 97, 100, 101–3, 103
father’s cooking, 100–101, 105
grandmother’s love of opera, 166–67
at Harvard Law School, 72–73
Ginsburg, Martin D.
birth of, 16
cancer of, 36–37, 47, 105
cooking of, 100–101, 105, 183–82
at Cornell, 30–31
death of, 2, 22, 107, 172
as first gentleman of Supreme Court, 104–5
at Fort Sill, 32, 32–33, 99–100, 167
at Harvard Law School, 31–32, 34, 37
law practice of, 101–2, 103
letter to RBG, 106
marriage and married life, 17, 32, 95–107, 96
Moritz case and, 51–52
Pork Loin Braised in Milk (recipe), 182–83
RBG’s Supreme Court nomination and, 78–79, 87, 97–98, 153
Ginsburg, Morris, 31, 33, 36
“Ginsburns,” 8, 22
Goesaert v. Cleary, 92
Gonzales v. Carhart, 21, 111, 133–35
Gore, Al, 128–29
Gratz v. Bollinger, 148–49
Greenberger, Marcia, 181
Greenhouse, Linda, 130, 171
Grimké, Sarah, 15, 46, 81
Griswold, Erwin, 33–34, 37, 45, 46, 58–59, 67, 72, 85, 185
Griswold v. Connecticut, 64
Gunther, Gerald, 39, 83
H
Hand, Learned, 39–40, 83
Hanks, Eva, 46–47
Harvard Law Review, 35, 35–36, 38
Harvard Law School
Jane at, 72–73
Kagan at, 118–19
Martin at, 31–32, 34, 37
RBG at, 17, 31, 33–37, 50
Heckel, Willard, 47
Hershovitz, Scott, 125
Hill, Anita, 87, 110
Hoyt, Gwendolyn, 53
Hoyt v. Florida, 53, 54, 134
humor, 181
J
jabots, 160–61
James Madison High School, 25–26, 27
James Madison Lecture at NYU, 84–85
Johnson, Bryant, 151–52, 153–59
Johnson, Lyndon, 18
judicial robes, 161–63
K
Kagan, Elena, 18, 111, 111, 118, 118–19, 161
physical training, 154, 155–56
Supreme Court nomination, 22, 111, 118–19
Kahn v. Shevin, 74–75
Kaplan, Hesh, 25
Kaplan, Laney, 50
Kennedy, Anthony, 85, 111, 111, 133, 175
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 86, 88
Kennedy, John F., 18
Kennedy, Randall, 170–71
Kentucky v. King, 148–49
Kenyon, Dorothy, 54, 55
Kessler, Gladys, 153, 154
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 4–5
Klein, Alisa, 88
Klein, Thomas R., 137
Knizhnik, Shana, 6–7, 13
L
LaFleur v. Cleveland Board of Education, 65, 74–75
Law, Sylvia, 171
Ledbetter, Lilly, 21, 136–40
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 21, 136–40
Lewis, John, 3, 6
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, 140–41
Lithwick, Dahlia, 133
Lomen, Lucille, 16
Los Angeles Times, 60
M
McCarthy, Joseph, 30
McKinnon, Kate, 7
Madison Lecture at NYU, 84–85
Mandhania, Ankur, 7, 13
Marshall, John, 162
Marshall, Thurgood, 12, 18, 69, 85, 86, 119, 170–71
Metropolitan Opera, 161, 166, 167
Miers, Harriet, 129
Mills v. United States, 15
Moberg, Eva, 40–41
Moritz, Charles E., 51–52
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 85
Murray, Pauli, 17, 39, 53–55, 54
My Grandma Is Very Special (Spera), 87
Myrdal, Gunnar, 55
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 30
National Association of Women Judges, 112
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 148–49
Nelson, Janai S., 144
Neuborne, Burt, 9, 12, 55, 85, 98, 153
Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, 114
New Republic, 9, 120, 149, 155
New Yorker, 155
New York Post, 58
New York Times, 37, 61, 72, 98, 130, 140, 143
Nine, The (Toobin), 163
Nineteenth Amendment, 16
Nixon, Richard, 19
Notorious B.I.G., ix, 7
Nussbaum, Bernard, 78
O
Obama, Barack, 140, 157
election of 2008, 21
election of 2012, 170–71
Kagan nomination, 22, 118
Sotomayor nomination, 21, 110, 117–18, 142
State of the Union (2015), 120
Obergefell v. Hodges, 173–75
O’Connor, John, 104–5
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 3, 104, 109, 112, 112–14, 118, 152, 153
judicial attire, 160, 162
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 85
Supreme Court nomination, 20
Supreme Court retirement, 21, 104, 129
Olson, Theodore, 115, 128
opera, 111, 115, 124, 161, 166–67
Scalia/Ginsburg, 115, 186–87
P
Page, Clarence, 86
Palmieri, Edmund L., 39–40
pancreatic cancer, 169
partial-birth abortion, 132–35
pathmarking, 121
Paul Weiss, 39, 53–54
pay equity, 20, 136–41
Peratis, Kat
hleen, 11, 60
personal training, 151–52, 153–59
Phillips v. Martin-Marietta, 19
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 85, 88, 113, 131–33, 134
Plessy v. Ferguson, 127
Pope, Hallie Jay, 6
Pork Loin Braised in Milk (recipe), 182–83
Post, David, 123–24
Post, Sarah, 123
“preclearance,” 144–46
pregnancy cases, 64–70, 74–75
Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, 66, 69, 175
Price, Leontyne, 166
Primus, Richard, 120, 123
Proof (play), 95
public image of RBG, 7–9
R
Race, Gender, and Power in America (Hill), 110
“R. B. Juicy” (Cosby and Gavin), 184–85
Reagan, Ronald, 20, 83, 86, 110, 111, 113
recipe, Pork Loin Braised in Milk, 182–83
Redding, Savana, 141–42
Reed, Cecil, 52
Reed v. Reed, 19, 44, 45, 52–58, 91
Rehnquist, William, 90, 114, 129
Duren v. Missouri, 75
Frontiero v. Richardson, 60
judicial attire, 160
Struck v. Secretary of Defense, 69
Supreme Court retirement, 21, 110
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 71
retirement, 169–71
Ricci v. DiStefano, 148–49
Roberts, John G., 110–11, 111, 129, 140
Shelby County v. Holder, 3, 5, 6, 142
Supreme Court nomination, 21, 88
Roe v. Wade, 19, 64, 67–68, 78, 84–85, 131
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 165, 179
Rosen, Jeffrey, 162
Rothko, Mark, 165
Rubens, Daniel, 121
Rutgers School of Law, 17, 46–49, 61
S
Sacks, Al, 38
Safford v. Redding, 148–49
same-sex marriage, 22, 173–75
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 7–8, 22
Scalia, Antonin, 83, 110, 110, 127
friendship with RBG, 115–16, 116
India trip with RBG, 115–16, 116
opera buff, 115, 167, 167
Shelby County v. Holder, 142–43
United States v. Virginia, 93, 120
Scalia/Ginsburg (opera), 115, 186–87
Scandal (TV show), 7
Schafran, Lynn Hecht, 81
Schizer, David, 8–9, 121, 122, 163, 169
Schlanger, Margo, 96–97
Schnall, Flora, 34
Schumer, Amy, 7
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir), 17, 46
sex discrimination, 18, 19, 34–35, 43–46, 48, 49, 50–51, 59, 62, 63–64, 74–75
Constitutional Aspects of Sex-Based Discrimination (Ginsburg), 19
Frontiero v. Richardson, 43–46, 59–60, 93
General Electric v. Gilbert, 69, 74–75
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire, 21, 136–40
Reed v. Reed, 19, 44, 45, 52–58
Struck v. Secretary of Defense, 64–68, 74–75
United States v. Virginia, 20, 89–93
sexism, 5, 70, 112, 117
Sheinbaum, Joel, 25
Shelby County v. Holder, 1–7, 142–47
Siegel, Neil, 56
Siegel, Reva, 56
Singer, Marcus, 30
Smit, Hans, 40, 41
Social Security, 32–33
Sotomayor, Sonia, 110, 110, 118, 161
Supreme Court nomination, 21, 117–18, 142
Souter, David, 129, 130, 141
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 85, 113, 132, 134
Sow, Aminatou, 6, 8, 13
Spera, Clara, 163, 164, 172
Spera, Paul, 87, 115, 172–73
Starr, Kenneth, 83
State of the Union (2015), 120
Steinem, Gloria, 9, 61, 68
Stenberg v. Carhart, 132
Stephanopoulos, George, 79
Stevens, John Paul, 9, 85, 113, 160, 170
Stone, Cathleen Douglas, 105
Strebeigh, Fred, 51–52
“strict scrutiny,” 45–46, 89–90, 93
Struck, Susan, 64–67
Struck v. Secretary of Defense, 64–68, 74–75
Supreme Court nomination of RBG, 20, 77–80, 79, 86–89
“suspect classification,” 56–57
swag of RBG, 160–65
Swiger, Elinor Porter, 102–3
T
Taylor v. Louisiana, 74–75
thalidomide, 41
Thomas, Clarence, 83, 110, 110, 170–71
Thurmond, Strom, 82, 88
timeline, 15–22
Title IX, 19
Toobin, Jeffrey, 128, 155, 163
Too Close to Call (Toobin), 128
Torre, Joe, 153
Toscano, David, 93, 95
Totenberg, Nina, 80, 82, 97, 171
Traister, Rebecca, 9
Tribe, Laurence, 112
tributes to the Notorious RBG, 188–91
U
United States v. Virginia, 20, 89–93
United States v. Windsor, 22
V
Vance v. Ball State University, 148–49
Verrilli, Donald, 175
Vietnam War, 48
Virginia Military Institute (VMI), 20, 90–93
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 22, 142–47
Shelby County v. Holder, 3, 4–5, 6–7, 142–47
W
Wallace, Mike, 129
Walmart v. Dukes, 148–49
Wang, Derrick, 186–87
Washington Post, 11, 83
Watergate apartment, 79, 124, 167, 172
Weber, Max, 165
Wechsler, Herbert, 34, 82
Weil Gotshal & Manges, 101–2, 103
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 70–71, 74–75, 92
“We the people,” 12
White, Byron, 78
Wieseltier, Leon, 11
Wiesenfeld, Stephen, 70–71, 87–88, 97, 98, 123
Wilkins, Roger, 101
Williams, David and Susan, 84, 124
Women Lawyers at Work (Swiger), 102–3
women’s rights cases, 74–75. See also sex discrimination
Women’s Rights Project at ACLU, 11, 12, 19, 45, 58–60, 62, 63–64, 87, 89–90
work ethic of RBG, 120–21, 152
Wulf, Mel, 11, 51–52
Z
Zimmerman, Diane, 63, 82
About the Authors
IRIN CARMON is a national reporter at MSNBC.
SHANA KNIZHNIK is a recent graduate of the New York University School of Law and the creator of the Notorious R.B.G. Tumblr.
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* Thanks to Neil Siegel, professor of law and political science at Duke University, and Reva Siegel, professor of law at Yale Law School, for help with the commentary on this excerpt as well as for commentary on the Struck v. Secretary of Defense, United States v. Virginia, and Gonzales v. Carhart excerpts.
* Thanks to David S. Cohen, associate professor of law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, for help with commentary.
* Thanks to Janai S. Nelson, associate director–counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help with commentary.