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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 Booga1 on Monday September 21 2020, @01:42PM (1 child)
That statement most certainly has political weight behind it, especially considering the source.
The phrase "until a new president is installed" clearly means "anyone but Trump." I doubt Ruth would carelessly word things and it shows her hope that Biden would win the election.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday September 21 2020, @03:19PM
Exactly so.
Not what a supposedly-impartial judge at the highest court in the land should express, unless she wants to be regarded as the poster child for legislating from the bench.
And the anyone-but-Trump crowd... well, read the Bender Affidavit; it's enlightening.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.