Washington (Kavian Press) – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon who served on the Supreme Court since 1993 and who crusaded for women’s rights before that, died on Friday at the age of 87.
Ginsburg died from complications of cancer, according to the Supreme Court. She died Friday evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington.
Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton and she was the most senior member of the court’s liberal wing. She famously voted on the most divisive social issues in America, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action.
Along the way, she became an icon and in speaking events across the country before liberal audiences, she was greeted with standing ovations as she spoke about her view of the law, her famed exercise routine and her often fiery dissents.
Ginsburg had suffered from five bouts of cancer, most recently a recurrence in early 2020 when a biopsy revealed lesions on her liver.
Ginsburg was well-known for her civil work, when she served as an advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union and she was the architiect of ensuring equal protection for gender under 14ht Amendments of U.S. Constitution.
“I had the good fortune to be alive and a lawyer in the late 1960s when, for the first time in the history of the United States, it became possible to urge before courts, successfully, that society would benefit enormously if women were regarded as persons equal in stature to men,'” she said in a commencement speech in 2002.
Once she became the Supreme Justice, Ginsburg had the reputation of a “judge’s judge” for the clarity of her opinions that gave straight forward guidance to the lower courts.
Ginsberg expressed her opposition to Donald Trump before the 2016 election calling him” a faker” and stated he had “gotten away with not turning over his tax returns.”
The vacancy gives Trump the opportunity to further solidify the conservative majority on the court and fill the seat of a woman who broke through the glass ceiling at a time when few women attended law school with a different justice who could steer the court to the right on social issues.
