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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she probably would not have made it to the high court under the current climate claiming the confirmation process has become more partisan.
“I wish we could have a magic wand and go back to those days when the process was truly bipartisan,” she said at the inaugural event of the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture Series.
Dean of the Dedman School of Law, John Attanasio, led a casual conversation with Ginsburg in front of a sold out audience in McFarlin Auditorium Monday night.
Before Attanasio formerly introduced Ginsburg, she came on stage to give a few words about Raggio.
After reading Raggio’s autobiography, “Texas Tornado,” Ginsburg said she was “captivated by her important.”
She kept the lecture light as she continued by telling another story about the time she attempted to clerk for Judge Learned Hand.
Ginsburg began the story by making it clear that Hand would not let women clerk for him because “we [women] would inhibit his “Attanasio without fail steered her back towards more mundane