Good Politics is politics that works and that improves the country, especially the poorest, as fast as possible. The far left thinks mainstream Democrats drag their feet, while the mainstream thinks political revolutions don’t work. Who’s right? It matters.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Second Woman on Supreme Court

President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court in 1993. Long before that, Ginsburg argued cases before the court as a scholar and advocate of the women’s rights movement. She was a high-profile proponent of the unsuccessful effort to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S Constitution.

On the court, she built a record as one of the most liberal members, supporting gay and abortion rights, President Barack Obama’s health-care law and restrictions on the death penalty. Her strong dissents from rulings that cut back on voting rights and affirmative action won her the admiring nickname “Notorious R.B.G.”