That constellation of emotions has been increasingly common since POLITICO’s report last month of a draft opinion reversing Roe. I’m 72, and if there’s something that grieves me, I want to get it out of my life. “I want to put it away for my children and my grandchildren. I thought, ‘I don’t want to look at it,’” Hunt says. The unintended - but not unforeseeable - result was that Donald Trump was able to name Ginsburg’s successor, who may wind up as the fifth vote to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion-rights ruling.

With the Supreme Court poised to reverse Roe v Wade, Ginsburg’s decision not to step down during the Obama administration looms large in the estimations of some of her admirers, who see it as enabling the destruction of large parts of Ginsburg’s legacy.

Recently, though, Hunt decided she didn’t want to see them. But over the years, she wound up with a couple of mugs depicting the champion of women’s rights, who died in 2020. Sign up for the newsletter.Īt 72, and having spent a career inside circles of power, Hunt is not exactly the target demographic for the Notorious RBG gear that became ubiquitous during Ginsburg’s late-life emergence as an unlikely Millennial meme machine. Want to read more stories like this? POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun every Friday.

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