RBG: Beyond Notorious

In the final installment, Poppy and Jeffrey go back to RBG's origins, beginning with her Brooklyn upbringing through to her time as a young lawyer struggling to secure a job despite being top of her class. They sit down with Professor Arthur Miller, who knew RBG and her husband Marty at Harvard Law School. Finally, CNN Supreme Court reporter Ariane De Vogue helps tie it all together and walks us through expectations for the coming term. 

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This 1970's episode delves into RBG's work as an attorney leading the ACLU Women's Right's Project, taking on clients who had experienced gender-based discrimination. Poppy and Jeffrey hear from two of the plaintiffs in these cases - Sharron Cohen (of Frontiero versus Richardson) and Stephen Wiesenfeld (of Weinberger versus Wiesenfeld) on how RBG argued their cases.

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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 down the male-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute -- speaking with Kelly Sullivan, a member of the first class of women at VMI.

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Poppy and Jeffrey go back to the 2000's, when RBG's public profile exploded. She became the most senior liberal justice on the court and wrote some of her most memorable dissents, in cases such as Lily Ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (2006) and Shelby County versus Holder (2013). Poppy and Jeffrey sit down with Ledbetter to discuss her case and the impact of RBG's dissent. They also catch up with Shana Knizhnik, the creator of the Notorious RBG Tumblr, and hear about the making of RBG into a pop culture icon.

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Poppy and Jeffrey begin the journey discussing RBG on the Supreme Court in the Trump era, hearing from her granddaughter Clara Spera on what she learned about her grandmother in law school. They also hear from CNN SCOTUS guru Joan Biskupic on how RBG's 2016 comments about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump have played out today and what to expect from RBG with the shifting makeup of court following Justice Kennedy's retirement.

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