U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and U.S. Ambassador to Italy John R. Phillips meet NYU Florence students

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg met today with a select group of NYU Florence students in the living room of the historic Villa La Pietra at NYU Florence. Students had the extraordinary opportunity to address questions to the Justice about everything from theCitizens United ruling, planned parenthood, income inequality and raising taxes on the rich, to eminent domain and the Black Lives Matter movement. NYU Liberal Studies Freshmen Helen You and Ismail Ibrahim characterized their meeting with Ginsburg as ’empowering’.”Without her, I don’t think most of us [female students] would be thinking about becoming a lawyer, or a doctor,’ You said. “She kept turning it back on us”,  Ibrahim continued, “She kept emphasizing that it is important that like minded people work together to achieve what they think is right. The values of the constitution would only be ink on paper if citizens didn’t take them to heart and fight for them.”

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