The Virginia Military Institute (VMI), with its mission to produce “citizen-soldiers,” had been an all-male institution of higher education since its founding in 1839. Over a century and a half later, in 1996, the United States Supreme Court ruled that VMI violated the Constitution by denying admission to women. Justice Ginsburg wrote the opinion for the Court explaining its judgment, in what is widely considered to be her most important majority opinion of her 27 years on the Court. That opinion provoked from Justice Scalia a memorably witty and exasperated dissent in which he critiqued the majority opinion for its disdain for our forebears, traditions, democratic process, and even the Court’s own jurisprudence.