{"id":2509,"date":"2013-04-10T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:47:48","slug":"jeffrey-toobin-heavyweight-how-ruth-bader-ginsberg-has-moved-the-supreme-court-the-new-yorker-march-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/jeffrey-toobin-heavyweight-how-ruth-bader-ginsberg-has-moved-the-supreme-court-the-new-yorker-march-11-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Toobin, “Heavyweight: How Ruth Bader Ginsberg Has Moved the Supreme Court,” The New Yorker, March 11, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: NewYorker.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Toobin’s profile of Ginsberg, not surprisingly, is admiring. \u00a0No surprise there—Toobin is a liberal who likes her liberal jurisprudence.<\/p>\n

But Justice Ginsberg herself is hard not to admire. She is astonishingly accomplished, and she gets on well with her colleagues, even the sometimes caustic conservative Scalia. (They attend operas together.)<\/p>\n

Toobin’s piece is an interesting read. Ginsberg offers up some interesting quotes. She describes herself as “an originalist,” and notes “We belong to a common law tradition. And, just as the commercial law grew, so did the idea of due process grow, and then equal protection.”<\/p>\n

You may read more at\u00a0http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/03\/11\/130311fa_fact_toobin<\/a> (subscription required)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toobin’s profile of Ginsberg, not surprisingly, is admiring. \u00a0No surprise there—Toobin is a liberal who likes her liberal jurisprudence. But Justice Ginsberg herself is hard not to admire. She is astonishingly accomplished, and she gets on well with her colleagues, even the sometimes caustic conservative Scalia. (They attend operas together.) Toobin’s piece is an interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[143,68],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-read","category-politics","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}