Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died at 87 — Lifestyle UG
In a statement, the court stated that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, surrounded by a family, died in her home in Washington, D.C. She was 87.
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a firefighter who became a legal, cultural and feminine icon in her 80s, died Friday. The Supreme Court declared her death to be due to complications caused by metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
- For 25 years Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at the federal bench.
- “Our nation has lost a historic justice,” said Chief Justice John Roberts.
- For the court and the country, Ginsburg’s death will have a deep effect.
- She became the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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In a statement, the court said Ginsburg, who was surrounded by family, died at home in Washington, D.C. She was eighty-seven.
“Our nation has lost a historic justice,” said Chief Justice John Roberts. “At the Supreme Court we have lost a beloved colleague , and today we mourn, but we hope that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we know her, the tireless and determined champion of justice.”
Ginsburg, the architect of the legal struggle for women’s rights in the 1970s, later served on the country’s highest court for 27 years, becoming its most important member.
Her death will necessarily put in place what promises to be a disastrous and tumultuous political struggle over who is to succeed her and will make the presidential campaign focus on the vacancy of the Supreme Court.
A few days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg commissioned this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spora: “My greatest wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
She knew what was coming. For the court and the country, Ginsburg’s death will have a deep effect . Inside the court, not only is the head of the Liberal faction gone but as the court opens a new post, the chief justice will no longer have the controlling vote in closely contested cases.
Although Roberts has a consistently conservative record in most cases, he broke away from fellow conservatives at some important point this year and voted with the Liberals, for example, to protect the so-called Dreamers, at least temporarily, from being deported by Trump executives.
To establish a major abortion prototype and to establish barriers to large church meetings during coronavirus outbreaks. But since Ginsburg is gone, there is no clear court majority for those decisions.
Originally published at https://lifestyleug.com on September 19, 2020.
