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Aug 2018
43m 43s

A Higher Court (1990's)

CNN
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Episode 3 goes through RBG's Supreme Court nomination and her first decade on the High Court. Poppy and Jeffrey speak with Professor Margo Schlanger, one of RBG's clerks during her first term, who breaks down RBG's first opinion on the Court. They also discuss RBG's landmark majority opinion in the United States versus Virginia (1996) -- the case that struck ... Show More
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