With no plans of retirement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, might just be the hardest-working justice out there. Tomorrow, on the heels of a watershed session, the National Constitution Center will host An Evening with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a one-on-one conversation covering the outspoken judge’s 20 years on the bench.
You could say she’s notorious: Just last week, Ginsberg became the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex marriage. Ginsberg was in the majority of the 5-4 rulings that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and declared California’s anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
She told the Washington Post, “I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.”
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