{"id":158839,"date":"2026-07-29T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/this-attorney-wouldnt-let-the-supreme-court-have-the-last-word\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:44:21","slug":"this-attorney-wouldnt-let-the-supreme-court-have-the-last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/this-attorney-wouldnt-let-the-supreme-court-have-the-last-word\/","title":{"rendered":"This Attorney Wouldn\u2019t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1879, after the Supreme Court turned her away on the reasoning that \u201cnone but men\u201d were permitted to practice before it, which attorney lobbied Congress into passing \u201cAn Act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women\u201d \u2014 and then, on March 3 of that year, became the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: She wasn\u2019t finished: a year later, she argued <em>Kaiser v. Stickney<\/em>, becoming the first woman to argue a case before the Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/this-attorney-wouldnt-let-the-supreme-court-have-the-last-word\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Attorney Wouldn\u2019t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/07\/Supreme-Court-artsy-300x210.jpg?resize=300%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1879, after the Supreme Court turned her away on the reasoning that \u201cnone but men\u201d were permitted to practice before it, which attorney lobbied Congress into passing \u201cAn Act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women\u201d \u2014 and then, on March 3 of that year, became the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: She wasn\u2019t finished: a year later, she argued <em>Kaiser v. 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