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posted by takyon on Saturday September 19 2020, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the september-surprise dept.

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.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by legont on Friday September 25 2020, @11:09PM

    by legont (4179) on Friday September 25 2020, @11:09PM (#1056982)

    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.

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