Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.

Those health issues included five bouts with cancer beginning in 1999, falls that resulted in broken ribs, insertion of a stent to clear a blocked artery and assorted other hospitalizations after she turned 75. Ginsburg was a mother of two, an opera lover and an intellectual who watched arguments behind oversized glasses for many years, though she ditched them for more fashionable frames in her later years. At argument sessions in the ornate courtroom, she was known for digging deep into case records and for being a stickler for following the rules.

Besides civil rights, Ginsburg took an interest in capital punishment, voting repeatedly to limit its use. During her tenure, the court declared it unconstitutional for states to execute the intellectually disabled and killers younger than 18. She was perhaps personally closest on the court to Scalia, her ideological opposite. Ginsburg once explained that she took Scalia’s sometimes biting dissents as a challenge to be met. “How am I going to answer this in a way that’s a real putdown?” she said.

Ginsburg authored powerful 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.

NOTORIOUS RBG ... A true iconic champion. Rest In Heaven 🙏🏽

Too young. She'll be missed.

beckmansasikter Naturligtvis tråkigt för hennes anhöriga men ingen förlust för USA.

........................................................ ........................................................ ........................................................ 'Rest In Paradise Ma'

Notorious RIP

God save us. 💔💔💔

😭😭😭😭😢😢 RIP

R.I.P Justice Ginsburg.

Holy soit! So Donald gets to appoint another justice? Are you fucking kidding me? RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg and RIP America

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RIP Justice😢🙏🏽

So sad. RIP 🙏

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MORE: Before her death, Ginsburg dictated a to her granddaughter Clara Spera. “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed,” she wrote.

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