evidence: After over a decade of distinguished service on the DC Circuit, she was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton, and confirmed by the Senate, 96 to 3. The kind of vote that you’d think these days was a misprint. In her years on the court, she had issued as I’ve said, countless great opinions. But I want to focus on three. Two of them, unfortunately, dissents, that have brought into sharper focus her transformational contributions to Women’s equality. [...] Drawing on a wealth of historical and sociological knowledge, she compared those explanations to reasons that bar associations once gave to exclude women from the practice of law. Or police departments once offered to exclude women from their ranks. She refused to accept any explanation based on what most women would prefer. Most men would also prefer to not be subjected to the physical rigors of VMI. A point she said, on which, even our descending colleague, Justice Scalia, might agree.