Sisters in Law (45 page)

191 review the abortion case: Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 49–50; Lazarus,
Closed Chambers
, 463.

191 Justices Stevens and Blackmun: different leakers have different versions.

191 Rehnquist abandoned the tactic: Toobin,
The Nine
, 50, on Stevens; Lazarus,
Closed Chambers
, 463, on Blackmun and Stevens.

192 Souter's clerk told Dangel: Greenhouse,
Becoming Justice Blackmun
, 201.

192 FWOTSC to overrule
Roe
: Tom Zemaitis, interview with the author, April 17, 2014.

192 assigned the opinion to himself: Lazarus,
Closed Chambers
, 466–70, for the story; also Dennis J. Hutchinson,
The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait of Justice Byron R. White
(New York: Free Press, 1998), 428–29.

193 Endangered Species Act:
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
, 504 U.S. 555 (1992),
http://
www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/
504
/
555.

193 “come as welcome news”: Harry A. Blackmun Papers, Library of Congress, 1992.

193 “vision of the woman's role”:
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), troika opinion,
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/
50
5
/
833
/case.html.

193 exulted over this opinion: Ginsberg delivered the Madison Lecture at New York University School of Law in 1992; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Speaking in a Judicial Voice,”
New York University Law Review
67 (1992): 1185, 1199,
http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_
059254
.pdf.

196 Critics concluded: There are many examples. One of the best summaries is Judith Olans Brown, Wendy E. Parmet, and Mary E. O'Connell, “The Rugged Feminism of Sandra Day O'Connor,”
Indiana Law Review
32 (1999): 1219–46, Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=
1984862
or
http://dx.doi.org/
10
.
2139
/ssrn.
1984862.

196 white, middle class, married: Ibid., 1227.

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14
: I'M RUTH, NOT SANDRA

199 determined to make history: Richard Davis,
Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005),
http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z
5252
I.pdf.

200 another liberal vote: David Alistair Yalof,
Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

200 dangling for months: George Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human: A Political Education
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 165–70.

200 posse was hard at work: Stephen Labaton, “Senators See Easy Approval for Nominee,”
New York Times
, June 16, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993 /06/16/us/senators-see-easy-approval-for-nominee.html.

201 “impressed on a personal basis”: Bernard Nussbaum, interview with the author, June 2, 2014.

201 “footnote” type: Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine
, 75.

202 “anti-stereotype principle”: Cary Franklin, “The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law,”
New York University Law Review
85, no. 1 (2010).

202 would never experience?: Catharine MacKinnon,
Sexual Harassment of Working Women
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 1979), Introduction, 1–8
;
Fred Strebeigh,
Equal: Women Reshape American Law
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 240–41; Jeffrey Rosen, “The Book of Ruth,”
The New Republic
, August 2, 1993,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-book-ruth
and
http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/fem
02
.htm.

202 in a different voice: Carol Gilligan,
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory
and Women's Development
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982).

203 “That woman has bad karma”: Rosen, “The Book of Ruth.”

203 “unsettle women's separate spheres”: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 15, F 1988.

203 disadvantaged by history and culture: Rosen, “The Book of Ruth”;
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-book-ruth.

203 she noted, “arrogant”: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 15, F 1988.

203 “distinctly male or female thinking”: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 15, F May 1991, Amherst speech.

203 “Judging in a Different Voice”: Suzanna Sherry, “Civic Virtue and the Feminine Voice in Constitutional Adjudication,”
Virginia Law Review
72 (1986): 543; see O'Connor's comments in the Madison Lecture, delivered at New York University School of Law in 1991, Sandra Day O'Connor, “Portia's Progress,”
New York University Law Review
66 (1991): 1546.

204 “those of my colleagues”: Portia's Progress,
http://midcoastseniorcollege.org/wp-content/uploads/
2014
/
03
/Sandra-Day-OConnor-Portias-Progress.pdf,
citing Sherry, “Civic Virtue.”

204 faxed from the Supreme Court chambers: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 30, December 1991 folder.

204 abortion decision,
Roe v. Wade
: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Speaking in a Judicial Voice,”
New York University Law Review
67 (1992), http://www.law.nyu .edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_059254.pdf.

205 Kate Michelman among them: Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, “Reaction to Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Supreme Court,”
NBC Nightly News
, June 14, 1993, https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/flatview?cuecard=3734.

205 subject of speculative leaks: Anthony Lewis, “Abroad at Home: How Not to Choose,”
New York Times
, May 10, 1993, http://news.google.com/newspapers ?nid=1755&dat=19930512&id=qQocAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q3sEAAAAIBAJ &pg=6654,2594453.

205 William Coleman wrote: Stephen Labaton, “Senators See Easy Approval for Nominee,”
New York Times
, June 16, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/16/us/senators-see-easy-approval-for-nominee.html.

206 were squeaky clean: Gardiner Harris, “M. D. Ginsburg, 78, Dies, Lawyer and Tax Expert,”
New York Times
, June 27, 2010.

206 Many observers credit: Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 81.

207 Rose Garden for the announcement: “Ginsburg Supreme Court Nomination,” C-SPAN, June 14, 1993,
http://www.c-span.org/video/?
42908
-
1
/ginsburg-supreme-court-nomination.

207 through the process: Joel Klein, interview with the author, May 21, 2014.

208 she gave her minders fits: Marcia Coyle, Tony Mauro, and Todd Ruger, “Clinton Docs Reveal Concerns About Court Nominees,”
LegalTimes
, July 18,
2014,
http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=
1202663790913
/Clinton-Docs-Reveal-Concerns-About-Court-Nominees#ixzz
3
IsohEp
8
v.

209 “countervailing interest”:
The Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary,
103d Cong. 127 (1993),
http://www.loc.gov/law/find/nominations/ginsburg/hearing.pdf.

210 minority of three:
Michael H. v. Gerald D.
, 491 U.S. 110 (1989).

210 Sandra in Chevy Chase: Ann Carey McFeatters,
Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005).

210 National Opera Lawyers' Committee: Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 154, Supreme Court general, copy of O'Connor speech to Opera Lawyers' dinner.

210 Florida and Salzburg: Ginsburg to Stephen Wiesenfeld, correspondence 1982–83; Joan Biskupic,
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2006), 244.

211 “that is the point”:
The Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
, http://www.loc .gov/law/find/nominations/ginsburg/hearing.pdf.

211 the National Gallery: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, televised interview with Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, July 1, 2009,
http://supremecourt.c-span.org/assets/pdf/RBGinsburg.pdf;
photograph of Ginsburg in her chambers, August 2013,
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/
2013
/
08
/ap
800767019711
.jpg.

211 dead giveaway: Margo Schlanger, University of Michigan Law School faculty website, http://www.law.umich.edu/FacultyBio/Pages/FacultyBio .aspx?FacID=mschlan (accessed November 18, 2014).

211 edited the
Law Journal
too: David M. Schizer, Columbia Law School faculty website,
http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/David_Schizer
(accessed November 18, 2014).

212 David Post: David G. Post, Beasley School of Law, Temple University faculty website, http://www.law.temple.edu/pages/faculty/n_faculty_post_main .aspx (accessed November 18, 2014).

212 first in her class at Columbia: Alexandra A. E. Shapiro, Shapiro Arato & Isserles biography,
http://
www.shapiroarato.com/person/alexandra-shapiro/
(accessed November 18, 2014).

212 David Schizer: David Goldberg, interview with the author, November 24, 2014.

212 University of Chicago Law School: Ibid.

212 reference writers: Margo Schlanger, interview with the author, May 28, 2014.

212 “got the work done”: David G. Post, interview with the author, June 3, 2014.

213 Jane at Columbia: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, April 30, 1993.

213 “glad to talk to you”: Ginsburg, letter to Jason Wiesenfeld, May 27, 1993.

213 corrected Jason's application essay: Ginsburg to William Brennan, copy in Wiesenfeld collection, November 8, 1993.

213 “acceptance at Columbia”: Stephen Wiesenfeld, letter to Ginsburg, May 9, 1994.

213 change in the practice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg to William H. Rehnquist, November 30, 1993, Blackmun Papers, Box 1420, folder 12.

213 “not good enough for Ginsburg”: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, oral history page,
Jewish Washington
, May 27, 2005,
http://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/jewishwashington/oral-histories/ruth-bader-ginsburg.

213 “protest too much”: Blackmun Papers, Box 1420, folder 12.

213 ceremonial paper: Tony Mauro, “Lifting the Veil: Justice Blackmun's Papers and the Public Perception of the Supreme Court,”
Missouri Law Review
70 (2005): 1037–47, http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3674&context=mlr.

214 “extended family, and closest friends”: Ginsburg to Joel D. Lowinger, copy in Wiesenfeld Collection, November 11, 1993.

214 “true feminist voice”: Amy Richards, Steinem assistant, to Wiesenfeld, November 11, 1993.

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15
: GINSBURG'S FEMINIST VOICE

215
Harris v. Forklift Systems
: 510 U.S. 17 (1993),
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/
510
/
17
/case.html.

215 who would want to work there?: Alex Kozinski, Foreword to Barara Lindemann and David D. Kadue,
Sexual Harassment in Employment Law
(Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1992), 5, vii.

215 free speech under the First Amendment: Alan Dershowitz, “Putting a Gender Bias on Free Speech,”
Buffalo News
, July 27, 1993, B3.

215 usually a misunderstanding: Richard A. Posner,
Sex and Reason
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), 391–92.

216 “bugger him”: The trial court was not so dainty;
Harris v. Forklift Systems,
60 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 74,245, 74,247 (M.D. Tenn. 1990) (the District Court opinion was unpublished).

216 “credit for her achievements”: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, brief in Barbara Harris,
Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978), 25.

218 equality-oriented standard: Sarah Cleveland to Blackmun, Blackmun Papers, Library of Congress, October 26, 1993.

218 “for us to decide this”: O'Connor, letter to Harry Blackmun, October 25, 1993, Blackmun Papers, Library of Congress, Harris folder, Box 635, folder 1.

219 “build things for the future”: Hugh Baxter, interview with the author, June 24, 2014.

220 what an army needs: Plato,
Symposium
, 220d–221c, describing Socrates's calm courage in retreating to a more defensible stronghold after the Battle of Delium.

220 her judging on the Court: oral argument,
Harris v. Forklift Systems,
http://www.oyez.org/cases/
1990
-
1999
/
1993
/
1993
_
92
_
1168.

220 will reach the same conclusion: Sandra Day O'Connor, “Portia's Progress,” Madison Lecture, 1991,
New York University Law Review
66 (1991): 1546, 1558, quoting Justice Jeanne Coyne.

220 thought it should: Golden Slipper Club Humanitarian Award 1995, Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 146.