Feeling 'Very Good,' Ginsburg Draws Thousands in Arkansas Appearance
After undergoing radiation treatment in August, the justice has four more events scheduled before the next term starts in October.
September 04, 2019 at 09:22 AM
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An ebullient Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continued her public touring Tuesday, telling a large audience in Little Rock, Arkansas that "I am feeling very good tonight" in spite of a recent round of cancer treatment.
Her appearance, hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Clinton School of Public Service, came only three days after a similarly well-attended appearance at the National Book Festival in Washington.
The Arkansas event had to be moved to an arena to accommodate 16,000 people, with 15,000 more on a wait list. Ginsburg is booked for at least four more public events scheduled nationwide before the fall U.S. Supreme Court term begins in October, according to scotusmap.com, which tracks the public appearances of justices.
The 86-year-old justice underwent radiation treatment in August after a malignant tumor was found on her pancreas. That followed three other bouts with cancer in the last two decades.
Former President Bill Clinton, who nominated Ginsburg to the court in 1993, introduced her to the Arkansas audience, calling her a brilliant jurist whom he liked from the first time he met her. "All of us hope she will stay on this court forever," Clinton said, voicing a wish held by many Democrats who don't want President Donald Trump to nominate her replacement.
NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg interviewed Ginsburg, asking her to tell oft-told anecdotes about her friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia, her years as a law student and as a women's rights advocate who broke barriers for women and men.
Ginsburg recalled the day in 1993 when she was summoned to the White House to be interviewed by Clinton for the Supreme Court nomination. Unlike other men, Ginsburg said, Clinton was "not uncomfortable talking to women." She said the visit was "one of the happiest days of my life." She was confirmed by a 96-3 Senate vote.
One less-heard tidbit came when Ginsburg was asked about the period from 2006 to 2009 when she was the only female justice—after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired and before the arrival of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
"It was a lonely position," Ginsburg said. "There was something wrong with the picture" when spectators would see the justices emerging from the curtains in the courtroom to sit on the bench.
"The public would see the eight rather well-fed men coming on the bench and this rather small woman," namely Ginsburg herself, she said.
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