Linda Hirschman
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6 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Linda Hirschman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Had the Equal Rights Amendment passed, legal editor Linda Hirschman again, it would have looked a lot like the racial civil rights movement did. But the Equal Rights Amendment did not pass.
And accordingly, the task was showing that the racially inflected 14th Amendment applied to sex. So what about the law is she trying to change?
So, for example, early on in her tenure at the Women's Rights Project, the other lefty lawyers are suggesting that the women's movement needs to take up the cause of lesbian rights. And she says, not yet.
At this point, she was getting sort of used to dealing with these rubies from the sticks.
Somehow she organized, I've now forgotten how, to get that argued the same day. That was on purpose? Yeah, oh yeah. Oh my God, that's genius. Yeah, no, she's a genius.
The court was asking him questions and he was completely incapable of answering. So finally the court just went, oh, never mind. And then when Ruth stood up to argue her case, they asked her about Greg V. Boren.
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