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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (143450)	10/17/2005 4:17:26 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793955

I think the AC just WANTS us to think they are separate entities. Here's some links to Ginsberg and the ACLU.... served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973–1980, usgovinfo.about.com Ginsburg launched her campaign by joining forces with the ACLU’s national office. She helped to write the ACLU’s brief in a key Supreme Court sex discrimination case, Reed v. Reed (1971), which struck down a state law that preferred men over women as administrators of decedents' estates. However, because the Court reached its decision without explicitly adopting a heightened standard of review, the ruling did not guarantee similar results in other cases. The ACLU established a Women's Rights Project in 1972 and placed Ginsburg at the helm. Over the next eight years, she sought to persuade a majority of the Supreme Court that sex-based legal distinctions should trigger some form of heightened judicial scrutiny. supremecourthistory.org In 1971, Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973-1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974-1980. In this position, Ginsburg successfully argued several women's rights cases before the Supreme Court, including 1973's Frontiero v. Richardson. As she argued a case involving women having equal rights with men, Justice William Rehnquist jokingly asked her, "So you can't settle for Susan B. Anthony's face on the silver dollar?" Ginsburg said that by the time she got on the Supreme Court, Rehnquist was appreciative of the equal role of women. en.wikipedia.org