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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 Phoenix666 on Saturday September 19 2020, @02:14PM
There's something that you, and many others, have not considered: Republicans are on the same side as the Democrats, which is to say, on the side of the Establishment/1%/Deep State. They are staying quiet about that because they're hoping to preserve their long con, that they're different from the Democrats, and outlast Trump. It's why the Establishment is desperately pulling out all the stops to prevent Trump's re-election, because then he just might have enough time to do them real damage.
As far as the Civil War goes, it has already begun. We just don't have opposing armies lining up on the battlefield yet.
Washington DC delenda est.