Summary

Chapter 5 begins with Ginsburg’s 1993 appointment by Bill Clinton to the U.S. Supreme Court. Clinton announced his nomination in a televised ceremony, and Ginsburg then gave some impassioned remarks. The book includes a photo from this ceremony. The book then shifts to the late 1970s, when Ginsburg applied to judges’ positions in the U.S. Appeals Court. She faced some resistance due to her work against gender discrimination. However, in 1980, she was appointed to the lofty position of United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia. During her time in that position, she was not seen as exceptionally radical or progressive, but as relatively moderate in terms of the politics reflected by her rulings. One somewhat controversial opinion that Ginsburg expressed was her partial disapproval of Roe v. Wade (1973), for although the case had helped to protect abortion rights, Ginsburg felt that...