The Loss of RBG Is an Ending — and a New Beginning
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Once she was confirmed to the Supreme Court, in 1993, RBG used her prodigious intellect to teach, listen, cajole. The Notorious One, even at her most authoritative, was using precisely the skills, tricks, and strategies most women deploy every day.
And that was her real magic: chipping away at the machinery of authority until it was allocated more justly, among all of us. She did so with a reverence for her foremothers’ fights. Ginsburg never stopped saying that she stood on the shoulders of the women who came before her — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Susan B. Anthony. Which is why when young women, especially law students, lined up to get a selfie, she never turned them down.
In an era in which “I alone can fix it” became the definition of male influence, Ginsburg’s power and authority came from the opposite impulse, the reminder that “all of you working together can fix it.” That command formed the spine of her early legal advocacy and her later jurisprudence — and near the end of her career, as women lost ground at the Supreme Court, that message shot through her dissents.
It took Donald Trump less than a week to announce that RBG’s replacement would soon be named. He has also promised it would be a woman who was going to dismantle some of the very freedoms Ginsburg battled for her whole life. It’s easy to feel erased, but don’t. We can step up and pick up the fight in RBG’s honor.
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