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273 Louis D. Brandeis: Richard A. Primus, “Canon, Anti-Canon, and Judicial Dissent,”
Duke Law Journal
48 (1998): 243,
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=
1040
&context=dlj.

273 Jim Crow south: Linda Greenhouse, “A Justice Champions a Witness to History,”
New York Times
, August 5, 2001,
http://www.nytimes.com/
2001
/
08
/
05
/us/a-justice-champions-a-witness-to-history.html.

274 gleefully put it to Wiesenfeld: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, March 2, 1977.

274 “grievously misguided”: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “The Role of Dissenting Opinions,”
Minnesota Law Review
95 (2010): 1, http://www.minnesotalawreview .org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ginsburg_MLR.pdf.

274
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
:
Lilly Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber
, 550 U.S. 618 (2007).

275 “Gadsden, Alabama”: Jill Duffy and Elizabeth Lambert, “Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents by U.S. Supreme Court Justices,”
Law Library Journal
102 (2010): 1, note 6,
http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/llj/LLJ-Archives/Vol-
102
/pub_llj_v
1
02
n
01
/
2010
-
01
.pdf.

276 Fair Pay Act, into law: “Ruth's Greatest Hit's [
sic
]: Ledbetter v. Goodyear,” Ruth Bader GinsBlog, August 15, 2012, http://ruthbaderginsblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/ruths-greatest-hits-ledbetter-v_15.html.

276 solitary female's questioning: Dahlia Lithwick, “Search Me,”
Slate
, April 21, 2009,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/
2009
/
04
/search_me.html.

276 sensitive thirteen-year-old: Joan Biskupic, “Ginsburg: Court Needs Another Woman,”
USAToday
, October 5, 2009,
http://usatoday
30
.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/
2009
-
05
-
05
-ruthginsburg_N.htm.

277 “to have her company”: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 9, 2009.

277 she wrote to Wiesenfeld: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, February 18, 2009.

277 “health problems”: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, December 29, 2009.

277 raise his spirits: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, March 9, 2010.

277 “the good job Marty helped” her get: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, June 13, 2011.

277 “all the difference for me”: Elahe Izadi, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Advice on Love and Leaning In,”
Washington Post
, July 31, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/31/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-on-love-and-leaning-in/.

278 ranging up to $45 million: “Supreme Court Runs Financial Gamut,”
New York Times
, June 11, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/12scotus .html?_r=0.

278 went shopping with her: travel diary from 1988 trip to Paris, Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 39.

278 “they will be here all night!”: Michael Li-Ming Wong, interview with the author, July 17, 2014.

278 a curmudgeonly: “Symposium Honors and Roasts Professor Monaghan,”
Columbia Law School Magazine
, Winter 2010, http://www.law.columbia .edu/magazine/153298/symposium-honors-and-roasts-professor-monaghan.

278 “brought into another dimension!”: Henry Paul Monaghan, interview with the author, October 14, 2013
.

279 more good, young Obama appointees: Randall Kennedy, “The Case for Early Retirement,”
New Republic
, April 28, 2011, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/87543/ginsburg-breyer-resign-supereme-court.

279 “equipped to do the job?”: Joan Biskupic, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Resists Retirement Pressure,” Reuters, July 4, 2013.

279 ten close cases: Veronika Polakova, “Predicting Anthony Kennedy,”
The Monkey Cage
, American Enterprise Institute blog, July 13, 2012, http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/judicial/predicting-anthony-kennedy/.

279 from the electric chair:
Connick v. Thompson
, 131 S.Ct. 1350, 563 (2011), http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16887528200611439212&hl =en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholar.

279 scrap metal machine:
J. Mcintyre Machinery v.
Robert Nicastro
, 131 S.Ct. 2780, 564 (2011).

280 against police misconduct: Lisa Kern Griffin, “Barriers to Entry and Justice Ginsburg's Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence,” in
The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
, edited by Scott Dodson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

280 her most passionate concern: Ibid.

281 civil rights trial:
Connick v. Thompson
, at 1370.

281 “sink any lower”: Mike Appleton, “Connick v. Thompson and Prosecutorial Impunity,” Jonathan Turley (blog), April 10, 2011, http://jonathanturley .org/2011/04/10/connick-v-thompson-and-prosecutorial-impunity/.

281 “Justice Thomas's meanest opinion”: Dahlia Lithwick, “Cruel but Not
Unusual: Clarence Thomas Writes One of the Meanest Supreme Court Decisions Ever,”
Slate
, April 1, 2011,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/
2011
/
04
/cruel_but_not_unusual.html.

282 not without its consolations: Ginsburg, letter to Stephen Wiesenfeld, June 13, 2011.

282 Supreme Court Historical Society:
Martin Ginsburg: Chef Supreme
(Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court Historical Society, 2011), http://supremecourt gifts.org/chefsupreme.aspx.

282
Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals
: 566 U.S. 12 (2012).

283 Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal: Laurence Tribe, “The Roberts Court: New Frontiers in Constitutional Doctrine,”
Washington Post
, June 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/
2014
/
06
/
06
/by-prof-laurence-tribe-the-roberts-court-new-frontiers-in-constitutional-doctrine/.

284 record for oral disagreement: Stephen Wermiel, “Dissenting from the Bench,”
SCOTUS for Law Students
, SCOTUSblog, July 2, 2013, http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/scotus-for-law-students-sponsored-by-bloomberg-law-dissenting-from-the-bench/.

284
Vance v. Ball State
: 133 S. Ct. 2434 (2013).

284
University of Texas Southwestern Hospital v. Nassar
: 570 (2012),
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/
12
pdf/
12
-
484
_o
759
.pdf

285
Fisher v. University of Texas
: 133 S.Ct. 2411, 570 (2013).

286 “cold feet”: Paul M. Barrett, “A Fascinating Supreme Court Punt on Affirmative Action,”
BloombergBusinessWeek
, June 24, 2013, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-24/a-fascinating-supreme-court-punt-on-affirmative-action.

287 “‘law-sanctioned inequality'”: “Realizing the Equality Principle,” at note 123 in present draft, Ginsburg Archive, Library of Congress, Box 12.

287 “preclearance”—was unconstitutional:
Shelby County Alabama v. Holder
, 133 S.Ct. 2612 (2013).

CHAPTER
19
: NOTORIOUS R.B.G.

289 marginalized and excluded: Shana Knizhnik, interview with the author, August 11, 2014.

289 he became Notorious: “The Notorious B.I.G.,” Wikipedia, http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notorious_B.I.G. (accessed November 19, 2014).

289 thousands of followers:
Texts from Hillary
, April 11, 2012, http://textsfrom hillaryclinton.tumblr.com.

289
Notorious R.B.G.
:
Notorious R.B.G.: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in All Her Glory
(blog),
http://notoriousrbg.tumblr.com
(accessed November 19, 2014).

290 an Internet phenom: Allison P. Davis, “NYU Law Student Is Making Ruth Bader Ginsburg a Meme,”
New York
, June 27, 2013,http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/nyu-law-student-is-making-bader-ginsburg-a-meme.html.

290 “Plain and simple”: Jamison Doran, “19 Reasons Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Your Favorite Supreme Court Justice: R.B.G. is a complete and total boss. Plain and simple,” BuzzFeed Community, July 30, 2013, http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamisond/19-reasons-why-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-your-favorit-7fxd.

290
Female Force
: Bill Mulligan and Tsubasa Yozora,
Preview: Female Force: Ruth Bader Ginsburg #
1
, Blue Water Comics, June 24, 2013, http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=17037.

290 clerks took it to the Justice: Josh Johnson, interview with the author, August 11, 2014.

290 send it to the justice: Akila Radhakrishnan, interview with the author, August 13, 2014.

290 made and edited music videos: Elizabeth Gavin, e-mail to the author, October 31, 2014.

290 “RBGuicy”:
http://rap.genius.com/Notorious-rbg-rbguicy-lyrics.

292 are also gay: Andy Towle, “Gay ‘Texts from Hillary' Creators Get Invite to State Department Meeting with Hillary,”
Towleroad
(blog), April 10, 2012,
http://www.towleroad.com/
2012
/
04
/gay-texts-from-hillary-creators-get-invite-to-state-department-meeting-with-hillary.html.

292 “play in the public realm”: Josh Johnson, interview with the author, August 11, 2014.

292
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
: 573 (2014),
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/
13
-
354
#writing-
13
-
354
_OPINION_
3.

293 “Se vuol ballare”: Wikipedia,
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se_vuol_ballare
(accessed November 19, 2014); translation by Jane Bishop, Aria Database,
http://www.aria-database.com/translations/nozze
03
_sevuol.txt
(accessed November 19, 2014).

293 “how to caper”: Lorenzo da Ponte, libretto to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
The Marriage of Figaro
, Recording Booklet, at 121, Chandos Music, https://
www.chandos.net/pdf/CHAN%
203113
.pdf.

293 sincerely held religious beliefs:
Burwell v Hobby Lobby Stores
, 573 (2014),
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/
1
3
-
354
#writing-
13
-
354
_OPINION_
3.

295 broadcast it over YouTube: “Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent, Song a Day #2007,” YouTube, June 30, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =GY1TJ8JazkQ.

295 severe heart disease: Sahar Naderi and Russell Raymond, “Pregnancy and Heart Disease,” Center for Continuing Education, Cleveland Clinic, February 2014, http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanagement/cardiology/pregnancy-and-heart-disease/.

296 “immature misjudgment”: Jeffrey Rosen, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero,”
The New Republic
, September 28, 2014, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119578/ruth-bader-ginsburg-interview-retirement-feminists-jazzercise.

297 “they're misguided”: Jessica Weisberg, “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg: I'm Not Going Anywhere,”
Elle
, October 2014, http://www.elle.com/life-love/society-career/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg.

297 stent in her artery the next day: Richard Wolf, “Justice Ginsburg Has Stent Implanted in Heart Procedure,”
USA Today
, November 26, 2014.

CHAPTER
20
: OUR HEROINES

299 “the face of American antidiscrimination law”: Adam Liptak, “Kagan Says Her Path to Supreme Court Was Made Smoother by Ginsburg's,”
New York Times
, February 10, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/
2014
/
02
/
11
/us/kagan-says-her-path-to-supreme-court-was-made-smoother-by-ginsburg.html.

301 “hasn't lived that life”: Sonia Sotomayor, “A Latina Judge's Voice” (2001),
New York Times
, May 14, 2009,
http://
www.nytimes.com/
2009
/
05
/
15
/us/politics/
15
judge.text.html?pagewanted=all&_r=
0.

301 “a rhetorical flourish that fell flat”: Robert Barnes and Paul Kane, “Sotomayor Repudiates ‘Wise Latina' Comment,”
Washington Post
, July 15, 2009, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/15/sotomayor_backs_off_wise_latina_quote/.

301 “only English was spoken at home”: Adam Liptak, “Sotomayor Finds Her Voice Among Justices,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/us/politics/sotomayor-finds-her-voice-among-the-justices .html?smid=pl-share&_r=0.

301 “relate to their own experiences”: Debra Cassens Weiss, “Ginsburg Defends Sotomayor, Calls ‘Wise Latina' Flap Ridiculous,”
ABA Journal
, July 9, 2009,
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ginsburg_defends_sotomayor_calls_wise_latina_flap_ridiculous.

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