What’s most interesting to me about “The Nine” — and the primary reason I’ve wanted to read it — is that it reveals the amazing and eccentric characters our Supreme Court is made of. Perhaps none more so that David Souter, the retiring justice whose seat Judge Sonia Sotomayor hopes to fill once he retreats forever to the farmhouse in New Hampshire where his parents and grandparents lived.
But mostly, I’m a little obsessed with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the trailblazer who argued sex discrimination cases in front of the Supreme Court before becoming only the second woman to sit on it. Not only did she attend both Harvard Law School (she later transferred to Columbia), but she also took notes in classes for her husband while he suffered from cancer and took care of her baby daughter.
So thanks to staff photographer Chris Preovolos and Marilyn Ramos, an attorney with Silver, Golub & Teitell in Stamford, for reading the book with me. Other staff writers from the Advocate have promised to jump in as well. It should be an interesting discussion.
