On tour with Notorious R.B.G., judicial rock star
They say that Bob Dylan, 76, is on a never-ending tour. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is eight years older and has a day job, seems to have acquired Dylan’s taste for the road.
In the space of three weeks, she is set to make at least nine public appearances. They follow a pattern: a thunderous standing ovation from an adoring crowd, followed by gentle questioning from a sympathetic interviewer.
Ginsburg mixes familiar stories with insights about the Supreme Court and the law. She lands a couple of jokes. She promises not to step down so long as she can “do the job full steam.” She describes her friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016.
The audience swoons, and the show moves on to the next venue.
She seems to enjoy the attention. “I am soon to be 85,” she said on Tuesday at New York Law School, “and everyone wants to take their picture with me.”
Her fans call her Notorious R.B.G., a nod to the rapper Notorious B.I.G., and Ginsburg embraces the connection. “We were both born and bred in Brooklyn, New York,” she likes to say.
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