Notorious RBG is the affectionate name given to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice.

This week she spoke about the impeachment process facing President Trump.

She urged the US senate, who will decide Trumps fate, to observe its constitutional duty and be impartial. Her words will most likely fall on deaf ears.

Given that Ginsburg is one of the greatest women the United States has ever produced, this is a most disappointing scenario.

Diminutive in stature, Ginsburg has been anything but small in terms of shifting the goalposts of life.

Growing up in New York, she studied law and tied first in her graduation class.

Any man in her position would have strolled comfortably into a high flying law firm and been given well paid employment.

But Ginsburg was a woman.

It was America in 1960. The American law firms of the day didn’t do women.

At least not professionally.

She was finally hired as a law clerk after a very strong recommendation from her Columbia Law Professor.

In 1961 Ginsburg began directing her energies towards academic life and in 1963 became a professor at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey.

In 1972 she co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. She began to take on gender equality issues in the US Supreme Court, winning most of her battles.

She sometimes chose male plaintiffs in order to make her point more vividly.

In 1980 she moved up a gear when she was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and in 1993 she was appointed to the top table of the US Supreme Court, only the second woman to make it there.

As one of the more liberal members of the current Supreme Court she is often in the minority. However her voice still remains strong, authoring many influential dissenting opinions.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has helped to make the world a better place.

If you want to change the world, become a lawyer.

RBG is the title of a Netflix documentary dedicated to the woman herself. It captures the life of a brilliant person. It also documents a beautiful and loving marriage to her husband Marty.

My Good Self strongly recommends it to one and all.