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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @03:45PM (2 children)
There's two or three orders of magnitude difference between your examples and the real situation. You act like a vanishingly small amount of people doing criminal things invalidates the completely legal protests. It doesn't work like that. The police are beating people down for expressing their first amendment protected freedom of speech, why aren't you angry about that? Governments have been doing that since the very first protest ever. Why aren't you furious, Mr. Real American?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @05:30PM
It is the continuing trick conservatives use even though they HAAAATE when it is used the other way. They have zero reslonsibility for the literal nazis and rightwing terrorists who murder people, but some protesters rioting makes them all baf.
Hypocrisy as usual, so damn tiring having the same argument over and over. Lime the rigious types who suddenly need an abortion so their abortion is necessary because they suddenly care about context. Self centered narcissism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @06:49PM
fuck the cops and fuck the cultural marxist race traitors. i hope you all kill each other.