Saturday, September 13, 2008

Justice Ginsburg

This picture of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg is reported to rest in Ginsburg's chamber. It was taken of the two while they were in India participating in an exchange program.

Today our law school had the privilege of an hour long class with Justice Ginsburg. I am truly humbled and grateful for this opportunity. What a fantastic woman. She was gracious and intelligent and thoughtful. I could list a million different adjectives to describe her and it still wouldn't do her justice.

For me, the most memorable question was one in which a student asked Justice Ginsburg about what the founding fathers would think of today's court. After a brief pause she responded that she believed the founding fathers would be most troubled with our current focus on security, which was causing us to whittle away at our civil liberties.

Me too, Justice Ginsburg.

On a side note, we all posed for a picture with Justice Ginsburg at the end of the class. Should you run across this picture, I am the second person on Justice Ginsburg's right.

1 comment:

Cathy said...

Wow! What an awesome opportunity!