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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Women attorneys were not common at the Supreme Court during the 1970s, but Maria Marcus became a leading Supreme Court advocates during that time. As assistant attorney general for New York from 1967 to 1978, Marcus argued — and won — six cases before the justices. Daniel Berrigan and the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.

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