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Farewell to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, because even young people mourn the pioneer judge - Lifestyle

2020-09-20T11:08:04.690Z


(HANDLE)Farewell to 'Notorious RBG': Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court judge who pioneered the struggle for women's rights and abortion, died at the age of 87 at her home in Washington after a decade of battles with cancer. "Not only did it change the law, it transformed the role of women and men in society," recalled the New York Times this Court dean and feminist icon who in the ninth decade of her


Farewell to 'Notorious RBG':

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

, the Supreme Court judge who pioneered the struggle for women's rights and abortion, died at the age of 87 at her home in Washington after a decade of battles with cancer.

"Not only did it change the law, it transformed the role of women and men in society," recalled the New York Times this Court dean and feminist icon who in the ninth decade of her long life had become the unlikely idol of a generation. much younger, shrunken by age and fragile from disease, but apparently immortal, even and above all to herself.

Ruth was 60 when in 1993 Bill Clinton called her to the Court, the second woman in the role of "super judge" after Sandra Day O'Connor: "I will stay until I can work at full steam," she had said. later, rejecting, during the second term of Barack Obama, the hypothesis of resigning to give the Democratic president the chance to appoint a successor.

"There will be a new president after this. I hope he will be a good president", Hillary Clinton had dreamed of, but Donald Trump changed the rules of the game: "If he wins I will move to New Zealand", he said on the eve of the 2016 vote. , to then go back on the joke in the name of the alleged duty of impartiality of the members of the Court.

Trump's victory forced Ginsburg to resist indefinitely while transforming it into a pop phenomenon.

As the court turned to the right, her disagreement with the majority attracted the attention of very young girls.

To give her the nickname "

Notorious RBG "

, a pun on the stage name of rapper Notorious BIG who, like her, was born in Brooklyn, was a law student, Shana Knizhnik, while the image of the judge with the characteristic glasses and the lace collar on the toga made a sensation on the Internet, "a symbol of hope for a future of empowerment", wrote in the Atlantic Dahlia Lithwick. Born in 1933 in a family of Flatbush shopkeepers, Ruth Bader had been a forerunner since she was a young girl. She had studied law , formerly a wife and mother, at

Harvard, one of nine women in a class of 500 men

, then at Columbia. In the 1970s, as

director of the Women's Rights Project

of the libertarian organization American Civil Liberties Union, she had debated a series of cases that had created institutional protections against sexual discrimination: a legal strategy that had invited parallels with those of Judge Thurgood Marshall on the front of the battles for

the rights of blacks.

Among his tactics, the use of the word "gender" when others used "sex", a word which, in his opinion, confused the magistrates.

Source: ansa

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