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She recently spoke in brooklyn to an appreciative crowd with many hispanic and latino families. She was the first woman to serve on the supreme court. Justice ruth bader ginsburg comes in for more biographical attention in another book about her and in a joint profile of the courts first two female justices. Currently, the united states supreme court has the highest percentage of women justices it has ever had, yet there has still never been a majority. Great book it opens with a ship moored off the coast of oregon, a load of hashish, a shootout and a fleeing man. Meet the three women on the supreme court who are making history. It provides plenty of personal background about the justices who sat on the supreme court when president roosevelt tried to change the size of it, in what came to be known as the court packing plan.
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