Well, good afternoon everyone It's a real honor for us to be here today this is this is the fourth year in a row in which Justice Ginsburg has spoken to the entering class at Georgetown Law School and I have to say you know it's It's an amazing experience for me to come in and to see everybody here and to see the admiration and the excitement and the way in which the Justice inspires us all on your faces So I can't think of a better way to start a legal career or more inspiring way than to hear from Justice Ginsburg around of applause for Justice Ginsburg So in terms of our format first of all everybody cellphones off the Justice will talk about last term which I have to have heard the Justice talk about the Supreme Court certain it's really it's a privilege and it's it's really fascinating to hear what she has to say about the most recent cases and then I will ask the Justice a few questions and then I have a few questions from members of our first year class and so when I read your question I'd like you to stand up and then the Justice will will answer them you know I think at Georgetown Law we don't need I don't need to do a long introduction for the Justice as law students you know over the course of the years ahead, you're gonna read some of her extraordinary opinions for the court and some of her extraordinary and powerful the sense and as all of you know just asking I think Justice Marshall in our history are really the only two justices who would be figures of great historical importance. If they've never been on the court and Justice Ginsburg among other things argued six landmark gender equality cases before the court 15 and really transform the law we're very proud of the justices ties to Georgetown Law School when you came in I saw her picture on the walls her her late husband Marty Marty Ginsburg was a beloved member of the faculty for many years we have a professorship in his honor and two of our faculty members, Mary Hartnett who's here with us and retired faculty member Wendy Williams are writing her her authorized biography and and worked with the Justice on in my own words work about her her speeches and other writings The years so we're very proud of it of the times that the Justice has So she's an extraordinary Justice was a historic figure before she went on. The bench has great ties to Georgetown law and uniquely is a cultural icon you know, I think many members of the Supreme Court over 200 years does anybody else have two coloring books about her a book Exercises which are really quite quite quite hard frankly I think a one act opera I actually was showing the Justice as we're waiting I recently got an email from one of my cousins about her granddaughter's first Halloween costume and I opened up the picture and you probably can't see it but my Great granddaughter or her She's dressed as the notorious RBG So it's an extraordinary career and we're we're privileged to be able to hear from the Justice social talk about the term and then I'll have some questions and then we'll have some questions from you and then we'll have a reception sport and fitness level So a round of applause for Justice Ginsburg Said I will tell you about the highlights of the term just pass and I will end with a preview of some of the most watched cases in the term that will begin the first Monday in October At the end of the 2017 term and that ended in June of 2018 Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement It was as I see it the event of greatest consequence for this past term of the court and perhaps for several terms ahead The first argument week of last term we sat with only eight justices and that is a risky number for a multi judge court We regained full strength in the term second week immediately after Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation and with that confirmation Justice Gorsuch cheerfully relinquish to our newest colleague the tasks assigned to the junior Justice answering the telephone the rare times it brings during conference opening the door one in eight appears usually to deliver papers or thermostat adjust this left Then most daunting of all conveying to the entourage from the clerk's office the Public Information Office and other court administrators all of the dispositions we reached at the conference Search scratched motions decided summary dispositions reached And also the most thankless of the junior Justice chores serving as a Justice is representative on the Court's cafeteria Committee Justice Kagan earned high praise when she had that job and she took the initiative for installing a frozen yogurt machine cafeteria Justice Briar retained his title last term as the Justice who spoke the most words during argument Justice So to my are ranked first on the number of questions Ask and Justice Thomas, who ordinarily ask no questions because he thinks the rest of us ask to many broke his silence for the first time since 2016 asking three In a single argument in a case called Flowers against Mississippi it was a challenge to a prosecutor's jury selection practices as racially biased Justice Thomas later authored a descending opinion in that case in which the seven Justice majority held that the defendants capital conviction could not stand because of the prosecutors repeated efforts African-Americans off the jury through the use of primary challenges Highest agreement rate among the justices Justice. So do I and I paired more often than any other set of justices with the Chief Justice and Justice Kavanaugh close behind highest disagreement rate does a soda mayor again paired with me on one side just as Thomas on the other Shortest time between oral argument and the opinion released I write first Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board and all female locker crew and thanks to his selections. The court last term had for the first time ever more women than men serving as law clerks just as you're entering class I'm told as slightly more women than men the women did not fit Nearly as well as advocates only about 20 -, one percent of the attorneys who presented oral argument male and of the 30 - four attorneys who appeared more than once during the term only six were women, so there is Over 6000 petitions for review with five last term Issued 60 - eight opinions in August cases to that number, we can add five summary procure dispositions. Those were decisions rendered without full briefing and argument, just on the basis of the petition for review and the brief in opposition So Eddie knows five to the 60 - eight years total of 70 During the term Of the 60 - eight decisions in argued cases only 20 will resolve by a vote of five to 405 to three among those same 60 - eight decisions. We were unanimous at least in the bottom The take away from that the court agrees considerably more often than it shapely divides On the next to last hearing day of the term, we heard argument in one of the most momentous cases Department of Commerce New York Secretary of Commerce Will Ross decided to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire He said he was responding to a Department of Justice request for citizenship data to aid in enforcing the Voting Rights Act since Analysis predicted that adding the question would reduce the census response rate for non citizens and Hispanic households resulting in poor census data evidence from the Department of Justice showed the Secretary Ross had sought to include a citizenship question long before the Department provided a request for the inquiry States and Non-government Organizations Challenge Secretary Ross decision as operate Precious and contrary to law in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act Plaintiff's also a service that adding a citizenship question violated the numeration clause contained in Article One section two of the Constitution After trial in a meticulous opinion in order by Southern District of New York District Judge Ferman and opinion that spans almost 200 pages in FB third the district Court ruled for the plaintiffs on their Administrative Procedure Act claims the court accordingly enjoying addition of a citizenship question to the Decennial Offenses presenting the case to the Supreme Court the government urge that the need to print the census forms by the end of June 2019 Was urgent They will ask the court to take up the case immediately without awaiting court of Appeals review and that is something extraordinary because ordinarily the Supreme Court is the third or fourth Drive unit to weigh in We await the District Court in the federal System and District Court in the Court of Appeal before we undertake a review but we complied with the Government's request and skip skip Seven second Circuit review the course opinion was authored by the Chief Justice It affirm the district Court's conclusion the Secretary Ross stated reason for adding a citizenship question was pretextual The Secretary is representation that the question was needed to aid in enforcing the voting Rights Act the court said appeared to have been contrived The Supreme Court therefore upheld the injunction against including a citizenship question on the census form And that injunction has held Next some of the other headlines cases during the 2018 to 2019 term and gamble against the United States the petitioner ask ask the court to end so-called separate sovereigns exception to the double jeopardy cross under that exception separate prosecutions for the identical offense do not constitute double jeopardy if the charge Successively by a state and the federal government under the exception it is irrelevant that the second prosecution would have been born had been instituted by the same government that brought the first prosecution Gamble had been prosecuted and convicted under Alabama law for possession of a handgun by a person with a prior conviction for a crime of violence The state prosecution Gamble was indicted by a federal Grand jury on a charge of possessing a firearm by a convicted felon Gamble argue that the federal indictment should be dismissed and the separate sovereigns exception abandoned his position The state's composed one federal Union pots of that Union I'm not separate from the hole Gamble Persuaded me but not the course majority which preserves the separate sovereigns exception by a seven to two vote American Legion against American Humanist Association presented the question whether a 40 foot tall cross located on a traffic median in Maryland and maintained by a state Commission violates the first Amendment's establishment clause known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross The monument was completed in 1920 - five as a memorial to County who died in World War One the fourth Circuit dividing two to one held the terror monument and unconstitutional endorsement of religion The Latin Cross The fourth Circuit majority reason is not a generic symbol of death It is the preeminent symbol of Christianity the symbol of the death of Jesus Christ this Court reverse the fourth Circuit judgement and held that long-standing monuments are constitutional if they are inclusive and nondiscriminatory the Bladensburg peace Cross according to the majority fit that description in Descent I wrote that the tarot Cross is scarcely secular and character It is emblematic of Christianity and no other faith maintenance of the cross on public land I tried to convey Made it appear that the state endorsed Christianity and relegated Nonadherence to outsider status State course has always accounted for important issues brought before the Supreme Court in Tim's the Indiana, for example, the State Supreme Court and held that the Eighth Amendment ban on excessive fines applied only to the federal government not to the States In the case we took up Indiana had seized in a civil forfeiture proceeding a car that petitioner tips had reached recently For about 40 - $2000, the drug crime to which tips have pleaded guilty and in connection with which is called carried a maximum fine of $10000. The question we address does the fourteenth Amendment incorporate the eighth Amendment's protection against excessive fines. Any unanimous judgment we Like the federal government States may not impose exhibit in fines The court also took up last term three cases about gerrymandering One legging race-based voting district lines growing in Virginia the others partisan Jerry Gerrymandering in North Carolina and Maryland We resolve the racial gerrymandering case Virginia House of Delegates be Bethune Hill on a threshold standing to litigate crowds originally allied with the Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia's Attorney General decide Against fighting on when a three judge District court ruled for the plaintiffs Virginia's House of Delegates one Chamber of the state's by camera Legislature sought to appeal We held that the House of Delegates could not alone continue to litigation without the support of its partners in the legislative process the Virginia Senate and Governor Concerning partisan gerrymandering modern technology allows map drawers Create a congressional delegation dramatically out of proportion to the actual overall vote count in North Carolina. For example in 2016 Republicans won 50 - three percent of the statewide vote Yet they ended up with 10 of the 13 congressional seats, and that Disproportion continued in 2018, even though in that year, Democrats won a slight majority in Congressional vote still only three seats in a delegation of 13 In North Carolina it was a Republican controlled state Legislature that drew the maps in Maryland Democrats control the state Legislature and conspicuously drew Congressional District boundaries to favor Democrats and dilute Republican votes Partisan Gerrymandering unsettled the fundamental principle that the people elect their representatives not vice versa The court however held that partisan gerrymandering flames present non-destructive political questions Justice Kagan and his strong descent I joined along with Justices Breyer and Soto mayor urge that cause indeed should provide a check against extreme partisan gerrymandering of the kind presented in North Carolina and Maryland The judgments were overturned by the Supreme Court had John just that The descent is would have affirm their judgment On our docket for the new term beginning the first Monday in October the court has granted review in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association against City of New York at issue in that case due city laws regulating the transport of handguns outside one 's home pass constitutional We have also taken up altitude Express against daughter from the second Circuit and consolidated within 11 Circuit case against Clayton County to resolve a Circuit split on this question Does the ban unemployment discrimination on the basis of sex contained entitled seven of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 - Four does Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation The same day we granted review in Zapata and pasta We agreed to review R G and G R Harris Funeral Homes against E O C The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a case in which the sixth Circuit held the title seven prohibits employment discrimination against transgender individuals The new terminal cases also include Matina against Melville Melville was the younger of the two snipers involved in the 2002 DC area random killings He was sentenced by a Virginia State Court to life without the possibility of parole Years ago Miller against Alabama we held that the Eighth Amendment bars mandatory sentencing of juveniles Juveniles at the time of the event bars mandatory sentencing to life without the possibility of parole The question in Malibu's case may a juvenile at the time of the criminal conduct be sentence to life without parole if in position of the set Is discretionary rather than mandatory the fourth Circuit said No children may not present this to life without parole unless their crimes show that they are irreparably encourage people Virginia Supreme Court had reached the opposite conclusion holding the only mandatory life without parole is off limits for juvenile offenders And in Ramos against Louisiana, we will revisit revisit a case Adan against Oregon in 1970, - two decision which held that a state court conviction I a non-u mystery, does not violate the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee As that guarantee is incorporated in the fourteenth, Amendment Ramos was found guilty of second-degree murder by attended two jury Overruled dot CA and hold it. The sixth amendment requires a jury humidity in state as well as federal criminal trials Two more cases attracting large attention Espinoza Montana Department of Revenue sincerely taxpayer-funded scholarships for children's attendant attendance of private schools of their parents choice The Montana Supreme Court held that the statute establishing the program was unconstitutional under Montana's own constitution because it provided provided funding for attendance at sectarian as well as secular schools Montana's Constitution. The court observed requires a specter separation of church and state and does the establishment clause of the federal Constitution the question By parents who chose sectarian schools for their children does the Montana Supreme Court's decision conflict with the free exercise of religion or the equal protection clause of the US Constitution Department of Homeland Security against Regents of the University of California concerns a program known as Daca Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Obama initiated policy blocking deportation of young people who have lived in the United States since their early years The Department of Homeland Security rescinded the policy but the US District Court for the Northern District of California affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Enjoying the precision the question presented by Homeland Security is its termination of Daca judicially reviewable and if it is did the lower court error in holding determination invalid as auditory and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act I can safely predict that the new term will have a fair share of closely watched cases and I look forward to the challenges ahead as I do now to my conversation with your Dean Thank you very much your honor that was it's really it's such a privilege to allow the Justice will be miked up There was really fascinating It was fascinating Is this working? Can you hear me Yeah Let me let me start with one of the first points that you made which is that a majority of the clerks for the court or women this year that's that's a big change from when you were in law school I remember you So how did you new clerk after the court after law school I work for a district judge The Supreme Court in a time of my graduation had in its history only one woman clear she was engaged by Justice Douglas during World War two the West Coast teams picked Justice Douglas first and one year. They told him all the men are off to the war and we have no one of the quality you would want as a law clerk And so he replied when you tell me that have you considered women If you have one who is topnotch I'll take her and so Lucy Loman for Justice Douglas said that 1940 - four term and then it was not another until the end of These were pre travel seven days till seven is our principal Antidiscrimination in employment Law came on the books in 1960 - four. So when I graduated from law school, there was no And employers legal employers were totally upfront and saying No no lady lawyers. I wanted in this shop So I have seen enormous changes in in my lifetime In fact I did rather well in law school but there wasn't It wasn't a single legal employer in the city of New York who would give me a bid for employment I said I had three strikes against me when I was Jewish and some of the large firms would just beginning and to engage Jewish lawyers Second, I was a woman They were precious few who will take a chance on a woman but the last one One struck out I was a mother because my daughter was four years old when I graduated from law school so the few firms that would risk taking a woman were not prepared to take Justice O 'Connor had similar experience. She graduated from Moscow obvious before I did very high in her class at Stanford. No job offer. So what did she do She volunteered to work free for a County attorney and said for four months I will perform without pay and then if you think I'm worth it, you can put me on the paper and She got her first job for women of my generation It was that first job that was high hurdle The job she generated performed at least as well as the men and the second job was not the same obstacle but getting your foot in the door was a real challenge and how I ended up Finally, getting a clerkship is a professor at Columbia Law School who was in charge of clerkship applicants went to a district judge Who was a Columbia's College graduate told me law school graduate and always took his clerks from Columbia And the professor approached the judge and said I like you to take a roof against as your offer and the judge said, Well I don't mind that she's a woman I've had women clerks but she's a mother and sometimes they work. Here is very intense I may need her to come in even on a Sunday The professor responded Give her chest and if she doesn't perform well there's a young man in her class is going to downtown firm He will jump in and take over so that was the carrot It was a stick as well and the stick was if you don't give her a chance I will never recommend another Columbia student to you so with that I got my my first Job you know in retrospect something does founder said I think rings true she said If there had been no discrimination where would we be today Well, we would probably be retired partners from some large law firm But because we didn't have that option we had to call a different path and we ended up on the US Supreme Court It is an example of so many times in life when something seems like it is really a huge disadvantage turns out to be I'm very lucky event now and you know I think particularly as students are starting their law school career you know the point that adversity is something that sometimes you know people can overcome very powerfully It's a very powerful lesson so Indiana the clerking was that that was your first job and I know that you know there's other judges who you were interested in working for but wouldn't hire a woman like learn at hand through they'll all be reading feeling Yes and but you also encounter learn in hand or your year of clerking Yes Judge Han one of the greatest federal judges of all times Lived around the corner from the judge for whom I clerked and my judge drove Judge hand to the courthouse and back home and when I finished work early enough I would sit in the back of the car and listen to the great man say whatever came into his head including some words that my mother never taught me And so I asked him if you say that you would feel uncomfortable dealing with a woman as a locker and yet in this car you don't seem at all in hitted by my present and his response was a young woman I am not looking at you always In the backseat You know how how much is law responsible for the change in the women's equality The law is seldom upfront leader It takes a ground swell of people who care about an issue So what was impossible even in the sixties even with the quote Liberal Warren Court to get the court to see that these gender classifications in the law operated to women's disadvantage In the seventies with now the So-called Conservative Burger Court the court struck down law after law as classifying impermissible on the basis of sex and what accounts for that change Well it was the way people were living and I can explain it perhaps best by contrasting The 19 fifties my daughter was born in 1950 - Five and I was one of the few working moms in her grade school class. My son is born 10 years later in 1960, - five and then it's not an unusual to have two Earths in the family, so it was changing the way The court to stop adhering to what was it can be called the separate spheres mentality that is man Men's domain was bread, winning and women's was the home and the children so the laws reflected that Division of Labor so for example take social security Women and men pay the same social security tax but it into the seventies if a male worker died there would be benefits for his widow if a female worker died no benefits of the wider world because the woman was considered opinion money earner Not the bread winner who counted he was breaking down that notion that Men work outside the home inside Needed to be changed and in a decade of the seventies almost every explicit gender-based classification in the law Was gone in there as a result of a court decision or a legislator in Congress and the state legislatures reviewing their law books And eliminating classifications based based on gender Notion that we had to overcome was that distinctions in the law operated benignly in women's favor to take one example was a 1960 - Women in many States were not called for jury duty In 1960 - one court thought that was a favor for the women. The men couldn't escape jury duty, but the women had a choice. They were not on the rolls, but if they wanted to sit on a jury, they could go to the truck's office and volunteered to be added to the list. What that was Men's participation in the administration of Justice is indispensable but the women are expendable We don't really need them to participate in the administration of Justice So I was getting in the court to see that those kinds of classifications were not in fact favorites for women They were making women less than full citizens because citizens have obligations as well as rights and serving on juries is one important obligation of emphasis You know one of the things that our students will be focusing on is you know how do you make change and so you know as you say you know there was a changes in society changes in the economy but they were also legal changes that really were very much a product of your litigation strategy so how did you How did you come up with the idea of kind of challenging you know very unequal legal structure By following through Good Marvel's example and carefully picking the cases that we brought early on so the first very first Gender discrimination case that came out in favor of the woman was really read Sally. We was a woman from Boise Idaho She had a young son She had her husband divorced She was given custody when the child was what the law calls of tender years The boy reaches his teams And then the father goes to court and said now he needs to be prepared to live in a man's world so please make me not his mother The primary custodian Sally Reed for custody for the father unsuccessfully and sadly, she turned out to be right The boy living with his father became sorely depressed and one day took out His father's many guns And committed suicide so Sally wanted to be appointed administrator of his estate Not that they say was worth anything economically There was a small Bank account a record collection But Sally wanted to be in charge of what her son of her son's possessions for sentimental reasons how former husband applied later And the probate court judge told Sally Reed I'm sorry but the Lord decides this case against you it reads As between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent's estate males must be preferred to females now that law came on the books in the 19 century and it was understandable why Because There was still A set of disabilities under which married women live that is before the married women's property acts were passed A woman Could not sue and be sued in her own name Cannot own property in her own name So all things considered if you have one able person who can make contracts you would pick the person who was able and not the one who is disabled to women So in Sally Reed's case, the court grass that this kind of classification Put it in Justice Brennan's words Put women not on a pedestal but in a cage And then we had a progression of cases like that always there weren't test cases in the sense that we went out Looking for places People began to complain making complaints they had made before Mike Sally. We like pregnant school teachers who were forced out of work as soon as they're pregnancy, began to show the excuse given by school boards was can't Little children think that their teachers swallowed a watermelon but it was so maternity leave was unpaid and there was no right of return Women who had accepted that kind of treatment for years I began to speak up and say this isn't right Did you have a litigation strategy before the court You talked about Justice Marshall's litigation strategy Did you have something to take the Cork step-by-step if their good marshal was well known for telling courts before Brown reborn separate Buddy who is that before the court today, these facilities are vastly unequal and then when he had his building blocks in place first Sweat against painter, but University of Texas finally came to them that they couldn't exclude African-American from legal education so they set up a separate law school which was vastly inferior So there was that case There are two cases involving universities One state University wouldn't admit African Americans but would pay their tuition to go some place out of state or another That had the one African American student off in a corner where he couldn't contaminate the others All those cases were one before Brown reborn In a progression of cases the court was asked to strike down these gender-based classifications Our strategy was to get rid of all of the explicit gender-based classifications and that as I said before it was a job accomplished in the span of 10 years through a combination of court action legislative change I mean it really is remarkable. You know your point about that in the 19 sixties, the Warren Court was really not It was not a sympathetic to gender equality but through litigation strategy which you really conceptualize and five landmark cases one a conservative court moved pretty dramatically Yes it was remarkable and you know obviously we could you know it's such a privilege to be able to talk to and I have many follow-up questions but I also wanna give some of our students questions an opportunity. So let me start with Jacqueline Jacqueline would you please stand Jacqueline asks every year the lower courts send up many cases that the Supreme Court declines to hear Are there any you wish you could have weighed in on and why I should explain first that the US Supreme Court does not sit to write wrong judgments It would be impossible for us to undertake that task What we see as our job is to keep the law of the United States more or less uniform So the number one reason to Grant review in a case is that other courts have divided on what the federal law is either. What a statute means what a constitutional provision required To take a simple example supposes the tax case and The Ninth Circuit is sitting on the West Coast rules in favor of the tax payer identical question presented in the second Circuit in it which is New York, Connecticut and Vermont comes out the other way sometimes for the government but we can't have two laws of the United States one for the West Coast So that's the number one reason that we will review in a case to keep the law of the United States more or less Uniform Do I regret a case that was denied review If the question is important enough we will have another opportunity So if we missed it the first time and it's important enough it will come up again and again So I think when that's why we try to emphasize that when the court denies review it says nothing about the merits of the case Maybe just that we want what we go further Percolation we as I said before the Supreme Court is the third or the fourth stop in the court system and we are informed our decisions are better because we have before us the opinions of the trial court the Court of Appeals I have a good vines on the bench saying what they think the right answer is so number one reason for taking case is a division of authority could be among federal court, so it could be a state Supreme Court and and a federal court So as I said if we miss granting case and it's important enough you can be sure that another petitioner will come the next year and the next year and we will have an opportunity for vertical address the question and we have two more questions Sam Miner Sam asks your close friendship with the late Justice Scalia was well known as a famous friendship between people with opposing beliefs and ideologies in a time with growing partisanship in the US Is there any advice you might have on bridging a personal gap between those with partisan divisions Good questions We we have seen In recent years the kind of division that is not serving our country. Well if we go back to the 1980 when I was appointed to the D C Circuit Senator Ted Kennedy was the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee The ranking minority member was strong Thurman Those two had a very good working relationship although Did not agree on very important issues even so the Committee worked to confirm The first time in history members of minority groups and women in numbers because there was that rapport and it was even better in 1990. - three when I was nominated for the good job I Then Senator Biden was chair of the Judiciary Committee And Senator Orrin Hatch was the Reggie minority member and Center in the Hatch was my biggest booster in In my confirmation hearing Someday we will get back to the way it should be and I think it will take courageous people who care about the health and welfare of the country on both sides of the aisle to say enough of this dysfunction Let's do the job that we were elected to do Covering the United States Very good. I I hope you're right. That's very optimistic and we all hope that that's the path that will follow and our final question from Emilia Deegan If you could add one thing to the Constitution to help America what would it be It would be to add to our constitution and equal Rights amendment Sometimes I'm asked why do you care about the Equal Rights Amendment under the fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection clause Haven't we gotten to bed the same place We would be if we had an equal rights amendment and I my answer to that Let's see if I brought my constitution Let me say I have three granddaughters I can going to the First Amendment protecting their freedom of speech But I can't point to anything that explicitly, says men and women People of equal stature before the law every constitution in the world written since the year 1950 contains the equivalent of an equal rights amendment Doesn't And I would like to be able to say to my grandchildren The equal stature of men and women is a fundamental premise of our system Justice freedom of speech freedom of religion or so I was a proponent of the Equal Rights amendment I wrote about it spoke about in many places Our constitution is powerfully hard to amend so the ERA fell three States short of ratification I hope someday it will be put back in the political hopper starting over again collecting the necessary number of States to ratify it very good. Well I have to say you know it has been such a privilege to be able to listen to you Justice and thank you very much Have a small parting gift so present that to you at a second so I'm walking To get the gift but you really have been transformational in terms of your career and you're an inspiration to all of us So we like to think of you as an honorary member of this class So I'd like to present to you To a round of applause again for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg So we'll be having a reception in the sport and fitness Lounge Thank you all for being here What an extraordinary occasion Thank you