RBG’s Greatest Insight
The justice understood that the two great principles of American democracy—equality and liberty—are not at odds, but rather integral to each other.
by Francesca Procaccini
Sep 22, 2020
3 minutes
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s time on the Court was often characterized as a pitched battle between the principles of equality and individual liberty. Conservative majorities have tended to elevate individual autonomy rights over equal treatment and equal opportunity in our politics, our workplaces, and our schools. The liberal bloc, by contrast, has tended to oppose this subversion of equality to liberty, and pushed to recuperate equality as the primary value guiding constitutional law.
Justice Ginsburg was in a camp of her own. She long
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