Adam Cohen

author of the book “Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle For a More Unjust America”

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court justice in 1993. She championed voting rights, affirmative action, and other liberal causes in blistering dissents.

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