![]() It houses ‘the Nine’ – as the United States Supreme Court justices are called, three of whom were women. “The difference between the opportunity that was offered to my mother and that which was offered to me”.Īs Ruth Bader Ginsburg, indefatigable at 87, threw in the towel in her latest and fifth battle against cancer, a pall of gloom fell over Marble Palace, constructed by John P. “What is the difference between a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, New York, and a Supreme Court justice”? asked the deceptively diminutive lady, the daughter of an Austrian immigrant, addressing a group of new American citizens assembled for their “naturalization” ceremony, all ready to sing the ‘Star and Spangled Banner’.īill Clinton’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court answered it herself:
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