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Dahlia Lithwick: How to understand RBG's complicated legacy
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2:19Now PlayingRuth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, was a pathbreaking champion of gender equality in the U.S. justice system. But despite Ginsburg's status as a progressive icon late in life, Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick says that it's important to understand the full context of the Supreme Court justice's legacy. "She was fundamentally a moderate centrist, often conservative, jurist," says Lithwick, noting that during her tenure on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Ginsburg's votes aligned more closely with Regan-appointed Justice Antonin Scalia than anyone else. "I think we have to be very honest about the fact that she was both the architect of the gender equality world we live in now, and also that she was very, very effective in part because she was a get-along person. She was very much conciliatory, always cared about decorum."
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