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, @02:47AM (4 children)
Did you read the title of the article? This is Hidin' Biden level confusion....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @02:54AM (2 children)
Oh right, it was the ghoul Melania. Odd, didn't think the dead could die. TIL
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 19 2020, @07:57AM (1 child)
Oh, go fuck yourself. Melania is nothing more than Trump's wife, and you hate Trump, so you hate Melania.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 19 2020, @11:10AM
Melania is a Trump enabler , fully complicit in his lies. Or did you miss her speech at the RNC nomination?
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 19 2020, @03:24AM
You need a funny bone transplant. I submitted the story when there was nothing in the subs queue about Ginsberg. Got beaten out, but that's okay.
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