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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, dies at 87

2020-09-19T00:25:52.262Z


This Friday night the news of the death due to complications from pancreatic cancer was released.Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the iron judge who dedicated her life to fighting gender discrimination and overcame many adversities before landing on the Supreme Court in 1993, died this Friday at the age of 87, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. According to a statement from the highest court, Ginsburg died this Friday night surrounded by her family in Washington DC, and will be buried in Arlin


Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the iron judge who dedicated her life to fighting gender discrimination and overcame many adversities before landing on the Supreme Court in 1993, died this Friday at the age of 87, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

According to a statement from the highest court, Ginsburg died this Friday night surrounded by her family in Washington DC, and will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

She is survived by her children Jane Carol and James Steven.

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Conservative John Roberts, said that “our nation has lost a jurist of historic dimensions.

We have lost a precious colleague.

Today we are grieving but confident that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her - a tireless and determined advocate for justice. "

Ginsburg would have won an award for attendance in the Supreme Court, where she

never missed an oral hearing

despite the debilitating chemotherapy sessions she received for years for

three types of cancer,

or in 2010, after the death of her husband.

Political leaders from both parties, celebrities and civic groups praised Ginsburg's work and figure, considered the most accomplished of the US highest court judges.

Slender and just five feet tall, her physical appearance might project fragility, but that would be a hoax: Ginsburg once joked that, thanks to her personal trainer, she could lift more weights than some of her colleagues on the bench.

She was also not lacking in a sense of humor: she used to repeat her mother-in-law's wise advice that the secret to a lasting marriage, in her opinion, was

“to play a little deaf

from time to time”

, something that, according to Ginsburg, also worked in the court.

Known with the nickname of "Kiki" among her relatives, or "the notorious RBG" -for her firmness and incomparable dissent in certain cases- she left her mark as a progressive leader in the Supreme Court, where she arrived in 1993 after her nomination by the then president. Bill Clinton.

Ginsburg was then the second justice on the Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor, in a court dominated by white men for most of its history.

Following the retirement of John Paul Stevens in 2010, Ginsburg was the highest ranking judge in the progressive quartet, complete with Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

A prolific author and influential leader, Ginsburg has always supported abortion rights and the “#MeToo” movement for women's rights, freedom of the press, and legal independence.

Similarly, he expressed

his disdain for the president, Donald Trump, in 2016,

calling him "false."

He later apologized for that public comment in the middle of the contest.

During a campaign rally in Minnesota, Trump does not mention Ginsburg by name, but has said he wants to name a new judge who can achieve confirmation in the Senate with bipartisan support, like Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

"Ted is the only man I know who can get 100 votes out of the Senate, all senators will vote for him," Trump said.

Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted after news broke that

his replacement should not be filled until after the November election.

This is the same rule that Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used in 2016 to prevent the confirmation of Obama-nominated Merrick Garland in the spring of that year after another Supreme Court judge, Antonin, died. Scalia.

Source: telemundo

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