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Character designs I'd forgotten I drew but are pretty decent actually. Very proud of the hair still. Old backstory for their all being a lil messed up is a dragon did that (after which the blue guy beat it to death with his own two hands) but they're no longer attached to the setting I first thought of them for so maybe it was something else. Maybe not, though, dragon-related injuries are very cool after all.
Rest in peace to this trail blazer, a game changer, an inspiration, a fighter. The Supreme Court will never be the same. Thank you for all the good you put into the world. Thank you for fighting for mine and women before me' s rights. You will be deeply missed and you are beloved. Rest Easy Ruth. We'll take it from here. Please honor her memory by voting this November.
New York City’s ‘Fearless Girl’ statue was outfitted with a jabot collar on Monday in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A Native New Yorker, Ginsburg passed away on Friday from complications with cancer. She was 87. Since her passing, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged to build an RBG statue in the city. (Reuters/@andrewkellyphoto)
We spoke to young women about how Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg impacted and motivated them — from book reports to Halloween costumes to law school inspiration.
Memorials for Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87, began today with a ceremony and public viewing at the Supreme Court. Read more.
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
alaska, utah, maine, iowa, south carolina: CALL YOUR SENATOR to prevent a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS majority. scripts below.
(posted 9/19) Hi y’all. I know most folks on this site are probably reeling from the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If we want to preserve rights for women that she fought for her whole life, we need to follow her lead and mobilize.
At this point, the only real hope for escaping a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, absent Biden winning in a landslide and packing the court, is if four Republican Senators stand up to Mitch McConnell’s double standards and maintain the precedent that the Republicans followed in 2016: not voting on a Presidential SCOTUS nominee in an election year.
Is McConnell’s “election year” rule a hundred percent fake? Yes. Do I hate that we have to play ball on this shitty, institution-shattering court that he’s set up? Yes. But McConnell & co. robbed Barack Obama of his SCOTUS appointment in 2016. There should be one more Dem judge seated than there is right now, and this is our only chance to keep the playing field even remotely equal.
If you live in one of the following states, please call these specific Senators right now and plead them to go against McConnell. I really can’t stress enough that this may be the only path to stop the Senate adding a THIRD Trump appointee in four years. I have included scripts and phone numbers to make this as quick and easy as possible. It will take you five minutes, less, and there are never as many callers as you think there are. Your voice could make an actual difference.
ALASKA: Lisa Murkowski, (202) 224-6665 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Alaska, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. On September 18th, Senator Murkowski said she “would not support” filling a Supreme Court vacancy before the inauguration, because it would be a “double standard.” I was glad to hear Senator Murkowski standing up for what’s right and I encourage her to keep this position, staying consistent with the precedent set in 2016. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.
UTAH: Mitt Romney, (202) 224-5251 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Utah, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. I want to urge Senator Romney to oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy with a Trump nominee, due to the precedent set by Mitch McConnell in 2016. Earlier this year, Senator Romney voted to convict President Trump during his impeachment trial, and that gives me confidence that he can resist party pressure and fight this double standard. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.
MAINE: Susan Collins, (202) 224-2523 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Maine, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. I want to urge Senator Collins to oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy with a Trump nominee, due to the precedent set by Mitch McConnell in 2016. In an election year for Senator Collins, it’s important to me to see that she can stand up for what’s right despite party pressure. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.
IOWA: Chuck Grassley, (202) 224-3744 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Iowa, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. In August, Senator Grassley said that he “couldn’t move forward with” filling a Supreme Court vacancy before this year’s election if it were on the table, because it would backtrack on the standard he helped set in 2016. I want to urge Senator Grassley to stick to this position and oppose double standards. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Lindsey Graham (I know, long shot), (202) 224-5972 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from South Carolina, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. Senator Graham has said, and this is a direct quote, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.“ He repeated the idea again in 2018, saying, “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.” I urge Senator Graham to stand by his previous words and play by the rules the Republican Party has established for election-year nominations. Senator Graham, please oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.
and if you don’t live in one of these states - please do reblog!!
yeah im not gonna finish this lol
leon keeps stealing chris' egg collection and leaping onto high surfaces to devour them. or something, idk lmao
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Thank You, RBG
We are heartbroken. Supreme Court Justice and gender equality hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, Sept. 18. Her death is a painful loss for our country. She was a fierce and unapologetic warrior for equality, and her achievements are endless. As we mourn we’re also embracing our gratitude for her service to our country.
Cherishing RBG’s Legacy
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg committed her life to protecting the rights, freedoms, and health of people across the country — in particular women, communities of color, and others whose voices too often go unheard. She was a true trailblazer who inspired millions of girls and women to fight through sexism and discrimination to make American a better place to work, to live, and to love.
Her powerful words over the years, including her razor-sharp dissents, helped push our nation toward freedom and opportunity for all. Her spirit, values, and words will be deeply missed.
A Modern Revolutionary
Some revolutionaries shook up a society with anger burning and guns blazing. Others studied hard, knocked down an unfair system one peg at a time, and spoke truth to power while wearing a lace collar. That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She got two mottoes from her mother, Celia Bader (who marched for women’s suffrage):
“Be independent,” take care of yourself without being financially beholden to a man, and
“Be a lady,” don’t allow emotions like anger to be so consuming they get in your way.
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw anything repugnant — like systemic discrimination — she would get straight to work. It wasn’t easy. Over decades, Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced a slew of indignities. But she harnessed courage and resolve to strategically break down America’s sexist, unethical laws and institutions.
To honor the Notorious RBG, we’ve collected our seven favorite facts about her life and her legacy.
7) RBG was defiant in the face of entrenched sexism in college and law school.
Most colleges didn’t accept women in the 1950s, and Ruth Bader was one of the first to break the gender barrier. At Cornell University, she was sexually harassed by a professor, who offered answers to a test in exchange for sex. She confronted him: “I went to his office and I said, ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?’ And that was the end of that.”
At Harvard Law School, she and the eight other women in her class of more than 500 students were ogled, ignored in the classroom, excluded from the library, and asked by the dean how they could possibly justify taking a seat away from a man. But that hostile environment didn’t stop her.
She fought it with brain power and superhuman physical endurance. She was so obsessed with the law that she’d regularly stay up until dawn studying. Well into her 80s, she retained her reputation for working until 3 a.m. and living on just two hours of sleep.
While she was kicking butt at the top of her classes, she was also taking care of her young daughter and sick husband. Martin (Marty) Ginsburg contracted testicular cancer and had extensive radiation therapy, which kept him from going to his own law school classes. So, RBG organized his friends to attend his classes, worked through their notes with Marty, and typed up Marty’s papers — all while doing her own schoolwork on top of it.
She tied for first in her class from Columbia Law School in 1959. She also was the first person to become a member of both the prestigious Harvard Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review — one of many of her unprecedented feats. She proved to those elite schools that a woman could succeed.
6) RBG showed the world what a partnership looks like in a husband-wife relationship.
Ruth Bader met Marty Ginsburg while they were both at Cornell University, and they forged an equal partnership from the beginning. He learned to cook so she didn’t have to. Later, he lobbied for her seats on the Court of Appeals in D.C. and on the Supreme Court. And he gave up his law firm in New York to follow her to Washington — a shocking move at the time.
Here’s how she put it at her 1993 Senate confirmation hearing:
“I surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams of equal citizenship alive. I have had the great good fortune to share life with a partner truly extraordinary for his generation. A man who believed at age 18 when we met that a woman’s work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man’s. I became a lawyer when women were not wanted by most members of the legal profession. I became a lawyer because Marty supported that choice unreservedly.”
5.) RBG won a whopping five cases before the Supreme Court — and they all advanced the Constitutional protection of equal rights for all Americans.
As smart and accomplished as Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, no law firm would hire her after she graduated from law school. Law firms slammed the door in her face time after time because they only hired men. She realized that “being a woman was an impediment.”
As Ginsburg navigated the legal working world in the 1960s, she saw how thousands of state and federal laws were treating women as second-class citizens. At that time, most states’ laws allowed employment termination for pregnancy, and let banks deny credit to women without a male co-signer. The Supreme Court had rejected every challenge to laws that treated women worse than men.
All this gender discrimination fueled Ginsburg’s drive for social justice. In the early 1970s, she followed the strategy of NAACP civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who helped dismantle Jim Crow laws case by case over many years — leading to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in schools in 1954. Like Marshall, Ginsburg centered her arguments on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says all persons should be treated equally under the law.
Throughout the ‘70s, Ginsburg led the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, for which she argued and won five landmark gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. As she said in the 2018 documentary RBG: “I knew that I was speaking to men who didn’t think there was such a thing as gender-based discrimination, and my job was to tell them it really exists.”
These cases set the foundation for the country’s laws against sex discrimination, and helped eliminate being male as the criteria for employment, pay, and benefits:
Two cases in 1975 and 1979 established the requirement that women serve on juries, recognizing that they should enjoy both the benefits and the responsibilities of our judicial system.
“The vaunted woman’s privilege viewed against history’s backdrop simply reflects and perpetuates a certain way of thinking about women. Women traditionally were deemed lesser citizens.”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Duren v. Missouri, 1979)
An employment benefits case in 1973 required the U.S. military to equally distribute family-based benefits for service members regardless of sex.
“In asking the Court to declare sex a suspect criterion, we urge a position forcibly stated in 1837 by Sara Grimke, noted abolitionist and advocate of equal rights for men and women. She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.‘”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973)
Two cases in 1974 and 1975 threw out gender-based distinctions in survivors’ benefits, granting widowers the same benefits as widows. RBG argued that while giving widows special treatment sounded nice, it wasn’t. Withholding benefits to widowers devalued the work of their deceased wives.
“A gender line…helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 1975)
4) At her confirmation hearings, RBG openly declared that abortion access is a Constitutional right.
At her 1993 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed what it looks like to uphold constitutional rights. Unlike recent Supreme Court nominees, she affirmatively declared the Constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. When Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO) grilled her about her views on abortion, she declared:
“But you asked me about my thinking about equal protection versus individual autonomy, and my answer to you is it’s both. This is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity. It’s a decision that she must make for herself. And when Government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
3) RBG wrote the historic decision ruling that state-funded schools must admit women.
In 1996, Justice Ginsburg wrote the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, which ruled that the Virginia Military Institute’s men-only admission policy violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Justice Ginsburg destroyed the Institute’s argument that its program wasn’t suitable for women. Instead, she wrote that:
“[G]eneralizations about ‘the way women are,’ estimates of what is appropriate for most women, no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.”
The school has admitted women since then, and — as Justice Ginsburg predicted — they have made the school proud.
2) RBG’s dissent from the majority in Lilly Ledbetter’s case led to the passage a fair pay law.
In 2007, Justice Ginsburg dissented in the ruling against Lilly Ledbetter — a tire factory employee who learned, decades into her tenure, that she was being paid much less than men in the exact same supervisory role: She was making $3,727 per month, while her male counterparts were making between $4,286 and $5,236 per month. However, she lost the case because the Civil Rights Act had a statute of limitations for reporting on discrimination.
In her scathing dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that gender discrimination can be hidden for a long time and “the ball is in Congress’s court” to change the rule. In 2009, Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which extended the Civil Rights Act’s statute of limitations and guarantees women equal pay for equal work.
1.) RBG put the smack down on TRAP laws in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
In the landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case in 2016, the Supreme Court — including Justice Ginsburg — ruled that two abortion restrictions in Texas were unconstitutional because they would shut down most clinics in the state and cause Texans an “undue burden” on access to safe, legal abortion. The case exposed the lie that anti-abortion politicians have been peddling for years: that it’s somehow “safer” when the state imposes medically unnecessary, onerous targeted restrictions against abortion providers (TRAP) laws.
In her concurring opinion to the majority, Justice Ginsburg wrote:
“Given those realities [that keep abortion access out of reach], it is beyond rational belief that H.B. 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law ‘would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions’… When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners… at great risk to their health and safety.”
With this historic decision, the Court reaffirmed the constitutional right to access legal abortion. This decision was a triumph for abortion access. And when one of the restrictions that Ginsburg helped strike down came up in another lawsuit this year, Ginsburg again helped lead the Court to protecting abortion access in a major Supreme Court victory for reproductive rights.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose for all of us. How will we work together to rise for her?
From day one, Justice Ginsburg recognized our constitutional right to control our bodies and our destinies. That is a legacy that cannot and must not depart with her.
Justice Ginsburg stood up for us. Now it’s our turn.
Follow Planned Parenthood at facebook.com/PlannedParenthood and twitter.com/PPFA to stay updated on how to get involved. Together, we will rise.
By Miriam at PPFA
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 15th, 1933 - September 18th, 2020
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."
Thank you, RBG. Rest in peace.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 15th, 1933 - September 18th, 2020
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."