Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died At 87
Get the Full StoryI m sure that many of us thought that long after we all turned to dust, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would still be kicking ass, taking names, and lifting two times more weight than I m able to lift. But in more horrible FUCK 2020 news that there are no words for, we have lost The Notorious RBG. She was 87.The Supreme Court said in a statement that RBG died from metastatic cancer of the pancreas, which she had been fighting hard. She died at her home today in Washington, D.C. while surrounded by her family. via NPR:
Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature, Chief Justice John Roberts said. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice.
RBG was born in Brooklyn on March 15, 1933. She got her bachelor s from Cornell, and after getting married to Martin Ginsburg, who died in 2010, and becoming a mother, she went to Harvard Law School and eventually transferred to Columbia Law School where she graduated at the top of her class. Once she graduated, she had a hard time finding a job and was rejected for being a woman.
RBG later became a professor at Rutgers Law School and was hit with more sexism because she was told she d be paid less than the male professors since she had a husband who worked. In the 1970s, she co-founded the Women s Rights Law Reporter, the first-ever law journal devoted to women s rights, and the Women s Rights Project at the ACLU.
In 1980, she joined the U.S. Court of Appeals after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter. And she served until 1993 when she was appointed to the highest court in the land by President Bill Clinton. After Sandra Day O Connor, she became the second woman to ever be a Supreme Court Justice.
Over ten years ago, RBG slathered her face with Crisco and put razors in her hair to fight that demon that is cancer. Just this year, she went through chemotherapy. And RBG obviously knew what kind of battle would go down when she left and while on her deathbed, she was thinking of the future of this country. Before she died, she told her granddaughter Clara Spera to let everyone know what her final wish is:
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.
She is survived by her two children, Jane Carol Ginsburg and James Steven Ginsburg, four grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Rest in peace to The Monumental RBG.
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