I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

"This is a wonderful book written for children that teaches children about Justice Ginsburg and teaches them that it’s okay to question what other people say, it’s important to speak your mind and it’s great to have the courage of your convictions. It’s a fantastic book because it exposes children to a great role model. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter She was ever hopeful, even when she was on the losing end of a case, that eventually her opinion would command a majority. So, oftentimes, if she was in dissent with respect to the proper interpretation of a statute, her dissents would relay, for instance, how Congress could amend the statute so as to adopt a position that she thought was the right interpretation in the first instance. That’s exactly what happened with respect to her dissent in the a pay discrimination case; the Court ruled against a plaintiff named Lilly Ledbetter on statutory grounds. Then, as soon as he was elected, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, overturning the majority decision and amending Title Seven to make it easier to bring pay discrimination claims. With respect to some of her other dissents, like her dissent in the case of Shelby County vs. Holder , which weakened the Voting Rights Act and which she believed was decided egregiously, she felt that she was writing for the ages. Her hope was that if the issue came back to the Court, people would revisit her dissent and her opinion would win the majority in a future Court."