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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

posted by takyon on Saturday September 19 2020, @12:17AM   
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.

• Re:R.B.G.: R.I.P. Re:R.B.G.: R.I.P. (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @07:50AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @07:50AM (#1053342)

  Fuck you too, khallow. No one will have anything good to say after you pass, given your performance so far, as compared to the late Justice. This is why Republicans cannot be Supreme Court Justices. Cavanaugh is finding out. You actually have to know law, and stuff, and you can't just rape and pillage your way through the Consitution as Alito, Clarence, and that dead guy, um, what the fuck? A, Albesio? No, Andorrian? Nope. See, forgot justice Scalia already, because his jurisprudence sucked. To be a good judge, you must know the law, understand the law, understand the spirit of the law, and be able to write it the way RBG could do. Conservatives are too fucking stupid to be on the Supreme Court, so usually they either stop being conservative, as several have, or the shut the fuck up like Thomas Clarence, or die in their sleep, when God calls them on all their lying, like with Antonin Scalia.

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• Re:R.B.G.: R.I.P. (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 19 2020, @02:25PM

  by khallow (3766) on Saturday September 19 2020, @02:25PM (#1053479) Journal

  No one will have anything good to say after you pass, given your performance so far, as compared to the late Justice.

  Sounds like it'd be a waste of time waiting for anything good to be said by you!

  You actually have to know law, and stuff, and you can't just rape and pillage your way through the Consitution as Alito, Clarence, and that dead guy, um, what the fuck?

  I find it remarkable how you can have such strong feelings about so little.

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