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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: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 19 2020, @02:58PM (2 children)
That's what the polls around the world are reporting. 401 years of mistreatment of blacks amounts to far more person-years lost. And more millions of people in absolute terms.
Americans don't realize just how corrosive the American exceptionalism has been to your reputation. The wars for oil and unconditional support of countries like Saudi Arabia don't help either. Nor does your reputation as a bully who breaks treaties.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @02:25AM (1 child)
People like you don't do a fucking thing to pressure your politicians to stop genocide happening TODAY.
Do you live in the present? Worthless hypocrite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 20 2020, @10:45PM
And people like you actively support a fascist who is committing low level genocide TODAY. Do you have any integrity? Worthless shill.