Is It Time To Stop Worshipping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg As A Legal Celebrity?

Some would agree to disagree with this law professor.

onFebruary 16, 2018 at 2:14 PMMarch 18, 2019 at 9:23 AM

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Maybe, just maybe, the left should tone it down with the worship of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a.k.a. “Notorious R.B.G.”

— Professor Richard Hasen of the UC Irvine School of Law, pleading with the public to stop idolizing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. “Justice Ginsburg is a hero. She deserves our thanks for her exemplary service,” Hasen continues, “But the left needn’t turn her into a god and conservative justices into devils.”

Sponsored

Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve

The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…

From The Team at Scale LLP

Staci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.