One of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s longtime confidantes will release a book later this year detailing their 50-year friendship.
NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg said her memoir, Dinners with Ruth, will be released on Sept. 13, discussing their friendship that started in the 1970s before Ginsburg‘s appointment to the Supreme Court.
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“Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace,” a description from publisher Simon & Schuster reads.
The book, as reported by Axios, also portrays relationships with Totenberg’s NPR colleagues and other Supreme Court justices, including Antonin Scalia and Lewis Powell.
A description of the book hints the title is named after a tradition the two shared in the last year of Ginsburg’s life, as she would have dinner at Totenberg’s house every Saturday. Ginsburg died at the age of 87 in 2020.
Last month, Totenberg was criticized for the wording in an article she wrote, including by NPR’s public editor, about Chief Justice John Roberts asking Justice Neil Gorsuch to wear a mask during court proceedings.
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“According to court sources, Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form or other, asked the other justices to mask up,” Totenberg originally wrote.
The Supreme Court denied the report’s accuracy in a statement, but NPR told the Washington Examiner it stood by Totenberg’s reporting.
