Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 165 I Didn't Expect You To Be Such Barbara!
"Oh Barbara—here's your orange juice—"

Five minutes later, Ethan came out of the kitchen with a tray.He poured the filtered, freshly squeezed orange juice into a glass filled with standard ice cubes and served it to Barbara.

"Thank you." Barbara took it with both hands and sipped it politely.

In the next second, the mage narrowed his eyes, "Oh! This is indeed the navel orange you grew yourself! It's so sweet! The sugar content in this is more than ten points, right? It's better than the premium oranges on the market!"

"Barbara, your sense of taste is really sensitive." Ethan nodded with a smile. "Our family is very professional in growing oranges. The average sweetness of the oranges Thomas grows can reach [-], and the maximum can reach [-]. You can drink the juice directly without adding sugar or honey."

While talking, Ethan also sat on the sofa and made himself a drink.When the sweet taste occupied the taste buds, and the ice-cold and refreshing filled his mouth, the satisfying pleasure also calmed him down.

To be honest, a few minutes ago, after seeing Barbara through the cat's eyes, Ethan's heart was beating so fast.No way, who made this middle-aged lady in front of him treat him well in the past few years?The legal protection of his first work "Snake" was solved by Barbara, and the chip patent issue that supported him to control the hardware was also solved by Barbara. The first court summons he received in his life was also torn up with Barbara's help. When one difficult legal problem after another was wiped out under her control, if Barbara lost her job because of him, then...

"Then I'd be embarrassed."

Ethan leaned forward, propping his elbows on his thighs, and kept turning the cup in his hand, "Barbara, I called your office a few days ago. I wanted to apologize to you because my remarks may have brought you some adverse effects, but your secretary told me that you are on vacation..."

"You were nervous at the time?" Barbara looked at Ethan with playful eyes.

"Of course." Ethan said without hesitation: "I even had a small composition of several thousand words popping up in my head in an instant. I thought that you were on the surface voluntarily taking a vacation due to work pressure, but in fact you were forced to leave due to public opinion issues. It may not be long before you voluntarily submit your resignation letter. Then, next semester I will be able to see you in school again. After that, I may be beaten to death by angry Evelyn."

"Then have you figured out where to put your tombstone?" Barbara folded her hands and leaned on the sofa.

"I can't be the master of this kind of thing, can I?" Ethan spread his hands in a good manner, and said, "If Evelyn chops me up and feeds it to the dogs, then I might have to live everywhere."

As he spoke, he sighed decadently.

"Ugh--"

"Hahahaha——" that funny appearance made Barbara laugh loudly, clapped her hands, shook her head and said, "Oh Ethan—you are indeed a creative person, you have a really rich imagination!" After a sentence of emotion, she added: "But don't worry, what you think will never happen, because your previous remarks are fine and have no effect on me."

"Really?" Ethan's eyes lit up.

"What am I lying to you for?" Barbara leaned forward, took the initiative to refill her glass of juice, and said, "Although your remarks are being crazily quoted by those conservatives, they are only a means of attacking Jimmy. The handover of the canal is imperative. Now it is not a question of whether we are willing to handover, but a question of must handover, because we have no control over it."

"Barbara, what do you mean?" Ethan didn't understand.

"Out of control?" He was very curious.

"Yeah~" Barbara nodded and said, "Out of the principle of confidentiality, I can't tell you more about the specific content, but I can tell you a story."

She cleared her throat and said, "In the southwestern part of Virginia, there is a small town on the border of Kentucky. A few decades ago, there were many people living there because there were rich coal resources. But as the mines were exhausted, there were fewer and fewer people there since ten years ago. Until now, the permanent population has not been much, and the total number of households is only a few dozen."

"Because the town is too small, it doesn't have many votes at all, so no one pays attention there at all, but in such a small town that is almost forgotten, a big event has happened in the past few years."

"Two years ago, the only suspension bridge used for traffic in the town collapsed, which had a great impact on the daily life of local residents. They wanted a new bridge, but the state government was unwilling to spend money on such a useless project, so they ignored their request."

"Then they thought of a way, which is to ask the CCCP's embassy in Washington for help, hoping to get assistance from the other party, so that the wind of totalitarianism can blow to the land of freedom."

Hearing this, Ethan opened his mouth wide.

"What?" He was a little surprised.

And Barbara couldn't help laughing, "This matter is true, it happened recently. When this matter spread in Washington, the Virginia state government panicked. If there is no accident, the bridge building matter should be unanimously passed in the near future."

"In this case, the state of Virginia has to build bridges."

"And we... also had to hand over the canal."

Although the story Barbara told was a bit absurd, Ethan still understood the meaning. The canal incident might not be that simple, and the other pole of the world should be involved in it.

And since the matter is so complicated, it means that his guess is not wrong. At most, Warner will use this kind of thing to disgust him, and then delve deeper?

Even if you give them a hundred guts, they won't dare to dig.

"Then I'm relieved." Ethan heaved a sigh of relief.

"You can rest assured?" Barbara raised her voice.

Such words made Ethan stunned for a moment, and the next second he straightened up, tried to open his eyes wide, and said in a tone as sincere as possible: "Oh Barbara-I said rest assured that you are not affected by me. I am still very concerned about your sudden vacation!"

Under Barbara's gaze, Ethan blinked his big bulingbuling eyes.

"Pfft..." That contrived expression made Barbara lose her power in a second.

"Ethan, you are really..."

She waved her hand and said, "All right, all right, I believe you care about me."

"Then you are on vacation this time?" Ethan said with a smile on his face.

"Guess what?" Barbara asked back.

"I guess you came back to relax?" Ethan said bluntly. "Because I heard from Evelyn that you are also very dissatisfied with this matter?" He asked tentatively.

That cautious look made Barbara shake her head, stared at Ethan for a while, and then smiled and said, "I'll consider your answer [-]/[-] correct."

"So low?" Ethan didn't believe it.

"Of course, because my vacation does mean to relax, but more because I want to see you."

"Look at me?" Ethan pointed to himself, a little strangely.

If he remembered correctly, the two had only met in July.

"Yes, I want to see you." Barbara had a smile on her face, "Do you know why I came here at this time? Because I want to talk to you, alone. Of course, this does not mean that these contents need to be kept secret. If you want to share them with others, you can tell Evelyn, or your uncle Thomas, or your aunt Linda later. Before that, I hope our communication is private and independent, okay?"

Barbara's tone was very serious, which also made Ethan put away the meaning of the previous joke.

"Do you need to go to the study?" He asked.

"No need." Barbara shook her head and said, "We're not negotiating, just chatting."

"Okay, please go ahead." Ethan's body softened, and he leaned on the sofa.

That relaxed posture made Barbara nod cheerfully, and also leaned back.

After the soft sofa wrapped her up, she squinted her eyes and asked Ethan her own question, "Ethan, can you tell me how you see our country?"

"Or, how do you view the donkey and elephant parties?"

Ethan frowned slightly at this question.

After thinking for a while, he replied: "Barbara, I'm just a 22-year-old kid who graduated from high school and has no higher education. Your question is a bit difficult for me..."

"Hahaha——" the answer like a repeater made Barbara burst into laughter. "Okay, Okay, Okay." She pressed her hands down to stop, "I should have expected you to answer like that."

After laughing, she continued in a steady tone: "Ethan, you should know that although my question has the meaning of probing, I have no malicious intentions. Since you said that this question makes you somewhat difficult, why not listen to my story? If you are interested in something, you can interrupt at any time, Okay? This should be fair to you, right?"

"Oh Barbara—thanks—" Ethan nodded with a smile.

Following his answer, Barbara also talked about the past.

"Ethan, I was born in Washington and grew up in Arkansas and Maryland. The reason why I lived across states when I was young is because my father is a lawyer and has the qualifications to practice in most states of the country, so he will travel around for work, and I can only follow him."

"Although the life of running around is very hard, the scenery on the road is also beautiful. What impressed me the most is that when I was very young, I saw my father go out with a briefcase. The suit looked really cool. And every time he won a lawsuit for someone else, the figure of the client came to thank him made me feel the joy of others. Therefore, from that time on, I had an idea in my mind, that is, when I grow up, I want to be as cool as him."

"Then, I became a lawyer."

"Then you have realized your dream." Ethan interrupted with a smile, "You are now."

"Yeah~ This is certainly a dream come true~" Barbara nodded.

The next second, she sighed again: "But when I entered Yale Law School, I discovered that there is a huge gap between dreams and reality. I want to be as cool as my dad, but that road is really too difficult. In the year I enrolled, Yale Law School enrolled a total of 170 students, but there were only 13 women like me."

"When I graduated from Yale, got my qualifications to practice, and officially started working, I was even more surprised to know that there were only three female practicing lawyers in the Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals where I worked."

"I don't know how you look at all of this, but I was like, there's just so little female power in this industry, and if I could, I wanted to do something about it."

"In the beginning, my idea was to become famous. As long as I received major cases and appeared in public again and again, I would definitely set an example for sisters of the same gender. Then I could open my own firm, preferentially hire the lawyers I want to hire, and provide them with opportunities."

"So I went to Edward Williams' firm, learned from him, and tried to get a chance to rise, but unfortunately, it didn't work. When the client found out that their client lawyer was a woman, they would choose to change. They didn't trust us."

"When I found that this path was not feasible, I changed my mind. Since the rich want to buy the best services with money, they regard women as vassals from the bottom of their hearts. What about the public? I can serve those who need legal aid. So I went to the District of Columbia as an aid lawyer and obtained the position of director. I have the right to appoint and remove personnel. I can provide opportunities for some companions who want to work in law, but I failed again..."

"Because ordinary people who need legal aid actually want to get rid of crimes more than rich people." Ethan sighed, and said: "In this case, they will distrust female lawyers more than rich people, because they will be afraid of female lawyers' actions, such as domestic violence, as long as they are men, they will not really want to talk about these things with female lawyers. For example, drug crimes, those guys will not believe that educated women who have come out of law schools will look at them."

"Oh Ethan, you're right, that's how it is..."

Barbara laughed. "So I failed again."

"And when I failed twice in a row, I found that the reason why there are few female lawyers is that social awareness is not deep enough. Therefore, I want people to know the value of female lawyers in the judicial industry. Therefore, I decided to become a teacher, and then I came to Stanford."

"Then, I wrote the casebook."

"Now, I'm a well-known person in the circle."

"Of course, there is also your power in it."

"Because you bought a lot and donated a lot."

"Hey hey——" Barbara's words made Ethan laugh, "Barbara, you don't have to praise me like that, I just did something that ordinary people would do."

Ethan didn't lie. When he bought the case collection for donation, his biggest thought was to give back.

When Barbara helped him again and again, anyone with normal logical thinking and a little bit of emotional intelligence would feel embarrassed. When Barbara looked at Vinton Cerf and didn't charge money, helping her dream come true was actually what a normal person would do.

"But you did let more people know me." Barbara said with a smile: "Although I haven't been in court for you, many people in the university circle, technology circle, and business circle know me now. They know that I helped you fix Motorola and Philips. When the most common and hardest infringement cases in business can be avoided from going to court, or even need to settle, because the infringed party can't find a reason to sue, I will be a star in this field, right?"

"You deserve it." Ethan said with a smile, "I'm the one who makes trouble, and you're the one who solves it, so in this respect, you are greater, right?"

"Okay, okay, why should we be so polite?" Barbara waved her hand and said, "Let's not talk about that, what I want to say is that because your trouble-making ability is the best in the country, I realized my dream that I didn't realize before. Now many companies know that female lawyers are also capable."

"You know what I mean?"

This question made Ethan stop smiling.

He looked at Barbara seriously.

He always felt that the big one was coming.

And Barbara continued: "Jimmy chose me because I have the ability."

"When he invited me to work in DoJ, I was very excited, because I could prove to the female group that in the judicial industry, we are as professional as men."

"And during the half a year I have been working, I have discovered one thing, that is, my previous thinking seems to have gone wrong. People don't trust women in the judicial industry because lawyers have choices in this industry, but what about another industry? For example, what about judges in the judicial industry?"

"If a woman becomes a judge, as long as she does not make principled mistakes, she can always appear in public. When she upholds justice for people time and time again, people will be able to slowly accept the role of women in the judiciary."

"When I told Jimmy about this idea..."

"Jimmy is very happy, he thinks this is a symbol of equality."

"He was very supportive of my decision and asked me to recommend some women who would be suitable judges to him."

Barbara looked at Ethan with eager eyes.

And her words were like a thunderbolt, exploding in Ethan's ears!

Ethan looked at each other with twitching corners of his mouth, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Barbara, this is a good thing and something worth celebrating, but I don't understand what this has to do with the donkey and elephant parties?"

Although Ethan said that he didn't understand, he had his own calculations in his heart.

He felt that Barbara was here to let him stand on Jimmy's side, right?
"Oh Ethan, where do you want to go?"

As soon as Ethan thought of it, Barbara said: "My meaning is actually very simple. Although California is the stronghold of the Elephant Party, the tolerance of the Donkey Party is more suitable for you."

'? ? ? '

'WTF? '

'Is this for pulling people's heads? '

Ethan finally got what Barbara meant.Then he was confused, "Barbara—if I remember correctly...you seem to be very dissatisfied with the handover of the canal?"

At this moment, Ethan suddenly felt that he had found a logic error.

If Barbara is very dissatisfied with Jimmy's policy, then why did she come to find herself on this cusp?And it seems to represent...the donkey party?
In the next second, Barbara's words made him stunned on the spot.

The mage leaning on the sofa with one hand on his chin smiled and said, "Yes."

"I'm really dissatisfied."

"I'm not against him doing this, because after we studied this matter, we found that this matter must be done."

"My complaint is that he did it in the first year."

"It's going to be a big blow to his tenure."

"You should understand what I mean, Ethan?"

boom!
Another thunderbolt knocked Ethan dizzy!
Of course Ethan understood what Barbara meant!
Because the mage in front of me obviously wants more!
What she was thinking of was not actually the recommendation right for the first session!But at least two terms!

And that...

You must be re-elected!
'Good fellow! '

'I didn't expect you to be such a Barbara! '

Ethan was shocked!

　Notes: ①The strange thing about building a bridge in the article is true. It was also reported on CBS’s national broadcast at the end of 1977. Lao Mi repeatedly stated that they had a bridge building plan long ago, and it had nothing to do with Su Weiai. ②Barbara Babcock (Barbara Babcock) in reality recommended female and minority judges to Jimmy crazily. Jimmy appointed more female judges and minority judges under her introduction than the number of women and minority judges appointed by his predecessors combined.This is a real bug in reality.When she died, the American Bar Association rated her as a trailblazer for women in the legal profession.Ginsburg is just the highest status person she pushes out.

　　


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