The Ginsburg Tapes

I landed from my flight home for the holidays yesterday to a slew of texts and news alerts about Ginsburg’s surgery.  For a split second, my stomach wrenched–but was relieved to read news reports indicate that short of complications in recovery, prospects look good for a full recovery for Ginsburg.  She hopes to be back on…

I spent part of this rainy Sunday watching a debate over the Equal Rights Amendment from 1976.  The debate was between Betty Friedan, author of the Feminine Mystique and the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative antifeminist activist and organizer of the “STOP ERA” campaign. We’ll be diving deep into…

This holiday season, the Ginsburg Tapes gives thanks to the life and work of Pauli Murray, who would have been 108 on in November. In 1971, RBG listed Murray as an author on her foundational amicus brief in Reed v. Reed to honor her trailblazing work for women’s rights under law. As Kathryn Schulz eloquently…

In Muller v. Oregon (1908), the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law placing a limitation on the number of hours that women, but not men, could work per day (10). Curt Muller, the owner of a laundromat in Portland, Oregon (pictured below), was convicted of breaking the law and brought his case all the way…

Excited that the Ginsburg Tapes got a shoutout in this year’s Forbes’ 30 under 30 for law and policy! Grateful for this honor and inspired to do as RBG would do–hustle harder.

This is a preview of the Ginsburg Tapes, a podcast about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s oral arguments in the Supreme Court—before she became #NotoriousRBG. Specifically, from 1972-1978, Ginsburg argued six cases in the Supreme Court.  In each case, she and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project brought constitutional challenges to laws treating men and women differently.  Ginsburg’s goal was…

This November, a preview will become available wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 1 will come out on January 1, 2019, and the remaining five episodes will come out on the first of the month every month after that, ending on June 1, 2019.