Female Force : Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Female Force : Ruth Bader Ginsburg book cover — IT IS A UNIQUELY AMERICAN MOMENT THE CULMINATION OF A UNIQUELY AMERICAN STORY THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL JOURNALISTS WAIT AS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD PREPARES TO SPEAK BUT FOR ONCE HE IS NOT THE ONE THEY HAVE COME TO SEE THE STORY THEY SEEK IS EMBODIED BY THE SMALL UNASSUMING WOMAN WHO STANDS BESIDE THE PRESIDENT THEY WILL SOON BE INVESTIGATING EVERY WORD SHE HAS EVER SPOKEN EVERY CHOICE MADE IN HER 60 YEARS SHE IS HERE AT THE DISCRE TION OF THE PRESIDENT AND IT IS WIDELY KNOWN THAT SHE WAS NOT HIS FIRST CHOICE THAT CHOICE MUST STILL BE AFFIRMED BY A POTENTIALLY HOSTILE CONGRESS SHOULD SHE SUCCEED THROUGH ALL THAT SHE WILL OCCUPY A POSITION OF POWER POTENTIALLY GREATER THAN ANY OF THOSE WHO WOULD SOON JUDGE HER A LIFETIME APPOINT MENT TO THE WORLD'S GREATEST DELIBERA TIVE BODY ON HER OPINION LAWS WILL STAND OR FALL SHE WILL BE BEHOLDEN TO NO ONE NOT THE PRESIDENT WHO SELECTED HER NOR THE SENATE THAT CONFIRMED HER THIS SLIGHT WOMAN WILL HAVE POWER OVER ALL OF THEM SHE WILL BE ONLY THE SECOND WOMAN TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AN OPPORTUNITY THAT RUTH BADER GINSBURG THROUGH HER LIFETIME OF FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN HAS HELPED TO BRING ABOUT

Female Force : Ruth Bader Ginsburg — page 1 — THE PRESIDENT IS OBVIOUSLY PLEASED WITH HIS CHOICE THAT HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE IN THE FIRST 6 MONTHS OF HIS PRESIDENCY SOME OF HIS HIGH PROFILE CHOICES FOR HIGH POSITIONS HAD GONE DOWN IN FLAMES SEVERAL OF THEM WERE WOMEN ZOE BAIRD AN UP AND COMING LAWYER WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST FEMALE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAW HER NOMINATION CRASH AND BURN PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SECOND CHOICE JUDGE KIMBA WOOD HAD ALSO HIRED AN ILLEGAL ALIEN AS A NANNY WORST OF ALL HIS LONGTIME FRIEND AND SUPPORTER LANI GUINIER FOUND HER NOMINATION DERAILED WHEN SOME OF HER MORE CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS WERE MADE PUBLIC HER NANNY AND CHAUFFEUR TURNED OUT TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR WHICH NO SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES HAD BEEN PAID LINLIKE BAIRD SHE HAD BROKEN NO LAWS IT DIDN'T MATTER CLINTON WITHDREW HER CANDIDACY FOR ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR CIVIL RIGHTS CLAIMING HE WAS UNAWARE OF HER VIEWS AN EXPLANATION THAT ANGERED HER SUPPORTERS AND EMBOLDENED HIS CRITICS NOT A WISE DECISION FOR SOMEONE ASPIRING TO BECOME THE CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE LAND A GUN SHY WHITE HOUSE PULLED THE PLUG ON HER NOMINATION TURNING TO A THIRD CANDIDATE THIS TIME A WOMAN WITH NO CHILDREN AND NO NANNY PROBLEMS WHISPERS ABOUT THE COMPETENCE OF THE NEW WHITE HOUSE WERE GETTING LOUDER WITH THIS HISTORIC CHOICE THE PRESIDENT FELT CONFIDENT THAT FEW COULD COMPLAIN OR FIND FAULT SUCH WAS THE REPUTATION OF JUDGE RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Female Force : Ruth Bader Ginsburg — page 2 — THE INTRODUCTIONS OVER JUDGE GINSBURG HERSELF BEGAN TO SPEAK IF THE PRESIDENT EXPECTED HER TO MAKE A GOOD CASE FOR HER NOMINATION HE WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED FEW COULD HELP BUT BE MOVED BY HER ACCOUNT OF HER MOTHER'S SACRIFICE AND HOW IT HAD MADE THIS MOMENT POSSIBLE FOR MOST AMERICANS THIS WOULD BE THEIR INTRODUCTION TO HER STORY I PRAY THAT I MAY BE ALL THAT SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD SHE LIVED IN AN AGE WHEN WOMEN COULD ASPIRE AND ACHIEVE AND DAUGHTERS ARE CHERISHED AS MUCH AS SONS THE SPEECH WAS A HOMERUN ALL IT TOOK WAS ONE QUESTION TO REMIND THEM THE MOMENT WAS HEARTFELT BUT IF ANYONE HAD FORGOTTEN THE POLITICS OF THE DAY MR PRESIDENT THE ITHDRAWAL OF THE GUINIER NOMINATION AND YOUR APPARENT FOCUS ON JUDGE BREYER AND YOUR TURN TO JUDGE GINSBURG MAY HAVE CREATED THE IMPRESSION PERHAPS UNFAIR OF A CERTAIN ZIG ZAG QUALITY IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS HERE I HAVE LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE THOUGHT THAT I COULD DISABUSE SOME OF YOU OF TURNING ANY SUBSTAN TIVE DECISION INTO ANYTHING BUT POLITICAL PROCESS I WONDER SIR IF YOU COULD WALK US THROUGH IT PERHAPS DISABUSE US OF ANY NOTION WE MIGHT HAVE ALONG THOSE LINES THANK YOU

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