The Ginsburg Tapes

With Lauren Moxley Beatty

Episodes

We Won’t Settle for Tokens

March 12, 2020 • 54 mins

Episode 8: Lauren breaks down the final tape of Ginsburg’s career as an advocate before the Supreme Court, and reflects on what she’s learned through this project. Questions for Lauren? Shoot her an email at ginsburgtapes@gmail.com, or find her on Twitter @laurenmoxley.

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Feet Off Our Necks (Rebroadcast)

September 19, 2020 • 61 mins

Episode 1 (Rebroadcast): Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her debut as an oral advocate in the Supreme Court in Frontiero v. Richardson. The case involved a challenge to a law that treated men and women serving in the military differently. Specifically, Air Force Lieutenant Sharron Frontiero was denied dependent’s benefits for her husband, a navy veteran...

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The Blind, the Lame, and the Women (Rebroadcast)

September 20, 2020 • 67 mins

Episode 2 (Rebroadcast): Ruth Bader Ginsburg only lost one case as an oral advocate in the Supreme Court: Kahn v. Shevin. The case involved a challenge to a Florida law according a special tax exemption to female widows, but not male widowers. Every widow got the tax exemption, regardless of her income–even the wealthy widowed...

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Pregnancy Discrimination Cases of the 1970s (Rebroadcast)

September 21, 2020 • 22 mins

Episode 3 (Rebroadcast): At the same time that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was arguing the sex equality cases that we’re focusing on in this podcast, the Supreme Court also heard a number of pregnancy discrimination cases. In each case, the Burger Court struggled to see how pregnancy discrimination is a function of sex. In their minds,...

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Make Us Serve (Rebroadcast)

September 22, 2020 • 60 mins

Episode 4 (Rebroadcast): Edwards v. Healy involved a challenge to a Louisiana law that excused women from the duty to serve on juries. In Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s third oral argument before the Supreme Court, she tried to get the Court to overturn a ruling of just 13 years earlier upholding a volunteers-only jury scheme for...

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Not a Pedestal, But a Cage (Rebroadcast)

September 25, 2020 • 65 mins

Episode 5 (Rebroadcast): After Stephen Wiesenfeld’s wife Paula died giving birth to their son, he was denied benefits available to sole surviving mothers with modest incomes. Had Stephen and Paula’s places been reversed, Paula would have received those benefits. Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented Stephen in challenging the social security law. She used the case to show how...

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Near Beer and the Middle Tier (Rebroadcast)

September 27, 2020 • 51 mins

Episode 6 (Rebroadcast): When did the Supreme Court finally raise the bar for sex equality under the Constitution? In a case about beer. In Oklahoma, women could buy 3.2% alcohol beer at 18, but men had to wait until they turned 21. Two fraternity brothers at Oklahoma State University teamed up with a co-owner of...

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Ride on Its Skirttails (Rebroadcast)

October 1, 2020 • 65 mins

Episode 7 (Rebroadcast): After Leon Goldfarb’s wife, Hannah Goldfarb, passed away, he was denied benefits available to sole surviving spouses that he would have obtained if their gender-roles were reversed. Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented Leon in challenging the law. The government argued that Ginsburg wanted to “characterize this as a women’s rights case because the cause...

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We Won’t Settle for Tokens (Finale Rebroadcast)

October 12, 2020 • 54 mins

Episode 8 [Rebroadcast]: Lauren breaks down the final tape of Ginsburg’s career as an advocate before the Supreme Court, and reflects on what she’s learned through this project. Questions for Lauren? Shoot her an email at ginsburgtapes@gmail.com, or find her on Twitter @laurenmoxley.

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The Ginsburg Tapes

Episodes

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The Blind, the Lame, and the Women (Rebroadcast)

Pregnancy Discrimination Cases of the 1970s (Rebroadcast)

Make Us Serve (Rebroadcast)

Not a Pedestal, But a Cage (Rebroadcast)

Near Beer and the Middle Tier (Rebroadcast)

Ride on Its Skirttails (Rebroadcast)

We Won’t Settle for Tokens (Finale Rebroadcast)

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