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When Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill traded spoken salvos on national television two years ago, there was no doubt who the stars of the show were. But this time around, the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought a different set of battlers to the forefront. With Judge Ginsburg's approval all but assumed, the real focus for fireworks has been the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the "indignities" that Harvard imposed on women were what led her to spend much of her career fighting to break down legal barriers to the advancement of women in society...
...experience with the agency. Another candidate is Lee Colwell, a former FBI official and current Clinton adviser who lives in Little Rock. No quick replacement is at hand, however, because the confirmation could take months, especially since the Senate will be tied up with the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Supreme Court Justice...
...Ruth Bader Ginsburg was about to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she had transferred after two years at Harvard to be with her husband Martin. She had been an oddity at Harvard, one of only nine women law students in her class. She remembers wanting to drop through a trapdoor when the dean at Harvard asked her to justify taking up the place where a man could be. Still, she was surprised when being on law review at both Harvard and Columbia and first in her class at Columbia did not make her a sought-after hire. She remembers...
...Appeals Court, might move her away from her natural allies, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter. In an interview last year, Ginsburg said, "Nino is the best colleague I've ever had. He's so thoroughly engaging." In a widely quoted joke, Scalia once replied "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" when asked whether he would want to be stranded on a desert island with New York Governor Mario Cuomo or Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. At a dinner party at her house shortly after the flag-burning decision four years ago, Scalia came in, sat down at the piano...