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Mitch McConnell: As she climbed from the middle-class Brooklyn Jewish roots of which she was so proud into the most rarefied air of law…

On the recordSeptember 20, 2020
As she climbed from the middle-class Brooklyn Jewish roots of which she was so proud into the most rarefied air of law and government, the future justice had to surmount one sexist obstacle after another. And Justice Ginsburg did not only climb a mountain. She blazed a trail.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky
Source
msnbc.com

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McConnell reflects on Justice Ginsburg's achievements and the obstacles she overcame as a woman in law.

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