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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family. She was 87.
"Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice."
Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday September 25 2020, @12:59PM (2 children)
Women, like most people, do not like working for free. They also do like to stay home with children when they have children.
American attitude to women is just plan ridiculous. Two weeks off and then go back to the mill with the baby crying at home. Russia, for example, has two years off.
The only American women who are happy are liberal DINKs - double income no kids.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 25 2020, @03:21PM (1 child)
Wow, you're insane. You're somehow trying to make the case that the lousy maternity leave standard in America somehow makes American women want to become slaves to men again? No, progressive American women just want to adopt policies like those in Western Europe, which are generous like Russia's. The problem is that conservative women keep voting against this, and their other best economic interests, by voting for a party that opposes all these things, or anything that's profitable for businesses.
(Score: 1, Troll) by legont on Friday September 25 2020, @11:09PM
You twist my words again.
American women want freedom to either work or be mothers, but when they do work they want to be paid *in addition* to what their husbands paid. They *do not* want their salary to be deducted form their husband's paycheck.
And make no mistake - they know that it was liberals who screwed them out of money and time. That's why they hate Clinton and this dead judge witch. They know it was on purpose just so the rich liberals make more money exploiting them.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.