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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

Supreme Court Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg, the second female United States Supreme Court Justice, died Friday September 18 2020 at her home in Washington aged 87 according to an Associated Press article by Mark Sherman. The AP source wrote that, "Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said". Ginsburg had announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her liver, the latest of her several struggles with cancer (AP, 09/18/20), a culmunation of health issues that included five battles with cancer beginning in 1999, falls that resulted in broken ribs, an insertion of a stent to clear her blocked artery and an assortment of other hospitalizations after she turned 75.
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Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, the second daughter in a middle-class family. Her older sister, who gave her the lifelong nickname “Kiki,” died at age 6, so Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section as an only child. Her dream, she has said, was to be an opera singer (AP, 09/18/20). According to the Associated Press article, Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg had married her husband, Martin, in 1954, the year she graduated from Cornell University. Martin Ginsburg died in 2010. She is survived by two children, Jane and James, and several grandchildren.

She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointment by a Democrat in 26 years. She argued six key cases before the court in the 1970s when she was an architect of the women’s rights movement. She won five. (AP, 09/18/20). On the U.S. Supreme Court, where she was known as a facile writer, her most significant majority opinions were the 1996 ruling that ordered the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding, and the 2015 decision that upheld independent commissions some states use to draw congressional districts
(AP, 09/18/20).

Ginsburg also authored meaningful dissents of her own in cases involving abortion, voting rights and pay discrimination against women. She said some were aimed at swaying the opinions of her fellow judges while others were “an appeal to the intelligence of another day” in the hopes that they would provide guidance to future courts (AP, 09/18/20). “Hope springs eternal,” she said in 2007, “and when I am writing a dissent, I’m always hoping for that fifth or sixth vote — even though I’m disappointed more often than not.”
(AP, 09/18/20).

Ginsburg once said that she had not entered the law as an equal-rights champion. “I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other,” she wrote. “I have no talent in the arts, but I do write fairly well and analyze problems clearly.” (AP, 09/18/20). There is great anticipation to see who will replace Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court given that this event happened a little over a month to the U.S. presidential elections. Pundits and elected officials are calling for the selection of her replacement be made by the winner of the up comming election in accordance with Justice Ginsburg's dying wishes.

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