With it disappears one of the last progressive voices of the American Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always fought against discrimination against minorities.
His most important fight remains the establishment of equality between men and women in all the laws of his country.
A conviction that she draws from her own journey.
In the 1960s at the start of her career, no law firm wanted to hire her when she was one of the best elements of her promotion.
She then became the first woman to teach law at the prestigious Columbia University.
Having become a lawyer, she pleaded six times before the Supreme Court to change the law.
She wins five of those lawsuits.
In 1993, Bill Clinton chose her to become a judge of the Supreme Court.
She is the second woman to obtain this position.
In 2013, she won the hearts of young progressives by fiercely attacking a Supreme Court vote she disapproved of.
The tone she uses, contrasting with her small size and frail physique, earns her the nickname "Notorious RBG", in reference to a rapper with a more imposing physique: "Notorious BIG".
His positions in favor of minorities, the environment and against Donald Trump (despite his obligation of political neutrality) have continued to increase his sympathy with the Democratic electorate.
His succession is today the object of tension.
It is up to the president to appoint the judge who will take his place on the Supreme Court for life.
Donald Trump would like to take the opportunity to place a conservative personality in order to definitively tip the Court on his side.
Such a scenario could in particular lead to constitutional changes with regard to abortion, for example.
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For their part, the Democrats demand that the appointment of the new judge wait until the end of the presidential election because if Joe Biden wins, it is to him that the choice of the new judge would fall.
A situation that has already occurred, 2016, Barack Obama had to give up replacing a judge whose death had occurred only a few months before the end of his mandate.