Maya Weinstock, deputy editor of MIT News by day, Lego constructor extraordinaire by night, certainly thought so. She made a set featuring each of the four women who have served on the US Supreme Court in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8. Photos of the figures that she posted on her Flickr site quickly went viral.

She submitted the project to Lego Ideas, a site run by the Danish toy company where people can upload their new set concepts and vote on their favorites. But Weinstock’s idea was summarily rejected.

“As a children’s toy brand, we refrain from any associations with active or current politics,” a company spokesperson

 

 

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