Inside the court, not only is the leader of the liberal wing gone, but with the court about to open a new term, the chief justice no longer holds the controlling vote in closely contested cases. Ginsburg's death will have profound consequences for the court and the country.
Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." Obituaries A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice."Īrchitect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. "Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., surrounded by family. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - here in her chambers during a 2019 interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg - died on Friday at the age of 87.įollow NPR's coverage of Ginsburg's death and the political aftermath here.
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