The Ginsburg Tapes

The Blind, the Lame, and the Widows


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Ruth Bader Ginsburg only lost one case as an oral advocate in the Supreme Court: Kahn v. Shevin. The case involved a challenge to a Florida law according a special tax exemption to female widows, but not male widowers. Every widow got the tax exemption, regardless of her income–even the wealthy widowed woman of Palm...
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The Ginsburg TapesBy Lauren Moxley Beatty