Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal leader of the Supreme Court and a trailblazing champion of women’s rights, died Friday. She was 87 years old.
The Supreme Court said in a statement that Ginsburg died "surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer."
Seen as a moderate when President Bill Clinton nominated her to the bench in 1993, Ginsburg went on to leave a lasting mark in the realm of gender equality, civil liberties and pay equity, and grew to achieve improbable late-in-life recognition as a pop culture icon and hero of the progressive movement.
Her first major opinion as a justice came in 1996 when she wrote the majority decision in United States v. Virginia. The ruling struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s 157-year-old policy of male-only admissions as unconstitutional, and set a stricter legal standard for government action that treats men and women differently.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
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R.I.P. Notorious RBG.
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This will be interesting. McConnell may WANT to put Trump's pick on the court, but it usually takes weeks of committee meeting and interviews. GOP senators up for re-election want to go home and campaign, and were planning to do so at the end of the week.
I'm going to bet that there is going to be a lot of soul searching over this. If they stay and approve a justice, they may very well guarantee the loss of the senate in the election. There are also problems if they delay some of this until after the election and try to squeeze it in as a lame duck senate.
On top of that, Trump is always a wild card. He may not like having all the media attention focused away from him and on the court pick. He may be cocky enough to tell McConnell that he's confident he's going to win the election and to put off the court pick.
RBG may have just lived long enough to throw a serious monkey wrench into the GOP playbook.
We'll see.
R.I.P. Notorious RBG. Well played.
I'm going to bet that there is going to be a lot of soul searching over this. If they stay and approve a justice, they may very well guarantee the loss of the senate in the election. There are also problems if they delay some of this until after the election and try to squeeze it in as a lame duck senate.
On top of that, Trump is always a wild card. He may not like having all the media attention focused away from him and on the court pick. He may be cocky enough to tell McConnell that he's confident he's going to win the election and to put off the court pick.
RBG may have just lived long enough to throw a serious monkey wrench into the GOP playbook.
We'll see.
R.I.P. Notorious RBG. Well played.
Christians warn us about the anti-christ for 2,000 years, and when he shows up, they buy a bible from him.
Re: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
May she Rest in Peace.
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