We’re still carrying them and still selling some. The sales on these kind of ebb and flow, but we haven’t detected any particular falloff. “We still carry a bunch of stuff with her image on it,” says Bradley Graham, who owns Washington’s Politics & Prose bookstore. According to data from Bookscan, sales of Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG - the ur-text of Ginsburg’s transformation from jurist to secular saint - appear unaffected by the draft-ruling bombshell.ĭitto the ubiquitous RBG merch. Navy ship a New York hospital a new species of praying mantis. Nearly two years after her death, the capital, and the country, remain awash in Ginsburgiana: Murals in New York, San Antonio, Kansas City, Denver, Baltimore, San Jose and beyond a U.S. I think it’s tragic.”Īnyone looking to hide from Ginsburg’s image will have a hard time. She gambled with the rights of my daughter and my granddaughter. “But she didn’t just gamble with herself. “She gambled,” says Michele Dauber, the outspoken Stanford law professor, speaking of Ginsburg’s apparent calculation that Hillary Clinton would be in the White House to appoint her successor.
“It was an extraordinarily self-centered thing to do.” Samuels heard the same thing from former clerks and other inner-circle members while researching a book in the years before Ginsburg’s death. And yet, what she has helped to give us is a court that for a long, long time is going to be undoing the equality rulings that she was part of.” She figured out a way to get women to be part of the constitution. “This is so multilayered because she cared so passionately about advancing equality for everybody. “It’s certainly hard for me, now, to think of her work and of her - and not to, these days, work up a degree of regret and anger,” says Dorothy Samuels, who authored The New York Times’ legal editorials during her 30 years on the paper’s editorial board.
Much of the wistfulness is felt not by disappointed idealist purchasers of lace-collar Halloween costumes or RBG refrigerator magnets, but by people who might have been the justice’s peers - people well established in law, politics and public service, many of whom can empathize with the complicated feelings involved in calling it quits. That constellation of emotions has been increasingly common since POLITICO’s report last month of a draft opinion reversing Roe. I’m 72, and if there’s something that grieves me, I want to get it out of my life. “I want to put it away for my children and my grandchildren. I thought, ‘I don’t want to look at it,’” Hunt says. The unintended - but not unforeseeable - result was that Donald Trump was able to name Ginsburg’s successor, who may wind up as the fifth vote to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion-rights ruling. With the Supreme Court poised to reverse Roe v Wade, Ginsburg’s decision not to step down during the Obama administration looms large in the estimations of some of her admirers, who see it as enabling the destruction of large parts of Ginsburg’s legacy. Recently, though, Hunt decided she didn’t want to see them. But over the years, she wound up with a couple of mugs depicting the champion of women’s rights, who died in 2020. Sign up for the newsletter.Īt 72, and having spent a career inside circles of power, Hunt is not exactly the target demographic for the Notorious RBG gear that became ubiquitous during Ginsburg’s late-life emergence as an unlikely Millennial meme machine.
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