Ginsburg makes Time's list of most influential people; Scalia explains why
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people, and she deserves to be there for two of her career paths, according to the Time summary by her friend and colleague Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had two distinguished legal careers, either one of which would alone entitle her to be one of TIME’s 100,” Scalia writes. “When she was a law professor at Rutgers and later Columbia, she became the leading (and very successful) litigator on behalf of women’s rights—the Thurgood Marshall of that cause, so to speak. President Carter appointed her to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980 and President Clinton to a seat on the Supreme Court in 1993.”
Scalia says Ginsburg’s opinions “are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree).” He also credits her as “a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.”
Time also has Ginsburg’s life in pictures, beginning with a photo taken when she was 2 years old.
Also on the list is:
–Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, described by Serena Williams as having “dedicated himself to fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal-justice system with the perfect combination of unwavering passion and idealism.”
–U.S. Sen. and former Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, described by Hillary Clinton as someone who “fights so hard for others to share in the American Dream because she lived it herself.” Clinton was also among the top 100, as was another former law professor: President Obama.
