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Originally Posted by Pete F.
The Constitution was not designed as a document to protect existing conditions.
Here's a few things RBG pushed
1. Employers cannot discriminate against employees based on gender or reproductive choices.
2. State-funded schools must admit women.
3. Women have the right to financial independence and equal benefits.
4. Men are entitled to the same caregiving and Social Security rights as women.
5. Juries must include women.
6. Ginsburg's legal advocacy pushed the military to drop its policy on abortion.
At the time, women service members who became pregnant had a choice to make -- abort the pregnancy and remain in the service or leave the service and become a mother.
7. She was against gutting the Voting Rights Act.
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As a judge, when she has the robe on, she's not supposed to "push for" anything except the law.
As a legal advocate, that's fine. It's a horrible quality in a judge. They aren't supposed to side with who they are personally rooting for.