Supreme Court's Popular Liberal Tells All

Nearly 30 years ago, when I was serving as a law clerk for a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington known as the D.C. Circuit, a fellow clerk invited me to walk down the hall for a home-baked cookie or two. The baker, or so I thought, was my friend's boss: the renowned jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I did enjoy the cookies, and I enjoyed meeting Judge Ginsburg as well. But now that I've read My Own Words, the first book written by Justice Ginsburg since she became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993, I must confess some doubt. Not doubt about the quality of the jurist. And not doubt about the quality of the cookies. But doubt about the baker's identity. You see, one of the reveals contained in this volume is that Marty Ginsburg, Justice Ginsburg's late husband, was not only a great