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Editorial | The Senate should follow precedent and honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg beat expectations even in the way she became the second woman to sit on the highest court in the nation.

That nod, in 1993, was expected to go to Stephen Breyer, a fellow federal court judge and former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer with close ties to Senator Edward Kennedy, who was at the time the number two Democrat on the committee after then-Chairman Joe Biden.

But Ginsburg so impressed President Bill Clinton that she won the nomination. Breyer would join her on the bench just a year later.

Her tenure would further prove her to be a figure never to be underestimated. She authored key decisions on women’s rights and other pivotal issues, including the 1996 ruling requiring Virginia Military Institute to accept women or lose its funding. She issued scathing dissents on issues such as abortion rights and unequal pay for women— the latter dissent spurred Congress to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

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