![]() More unusual still was that she’d read two other dissents from the bench the day before. (For the hip-hop unlettered, Notorious RBG is a play on the Notorious B.I.G., the rapper who was murdered in 1997.) Justice Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, which in the genteel, marbled universe of the Supreme Court, is most unusual - the equivalent of shaming your spouse in front of dinner guests. Holder, which discarded a crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act. ![]() “Notorious RBG” began in 2013 as a saucy Tumblr blog by Shana Knizhnik, then a law student, shortly after the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. (“Fear the frill,” says one, referring to her signature jabots.) Woven throughout are excerpts from Justice Ginsburg’s most influential opinions, with added blocks of scholars’ commentary strutting down the margins. More entertaining are the dozens of images of her rendered in every conceivable medium - as nail art and shoulder tattoos, as needlepoint samplers and bronze busts, as surrealist watercolors, deadpan cartoons and somber illustrations. Pages are filled with photographs of the Supreme Court justice old and young (ravishing, by the way). Aesthetically speaking, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” is a cheery curio, as if a scrapbook and the Talmud decided to have a baby. ![]()
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