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.
"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."
And a pedophile sympathizer
She dies a hero. She didn’t let us know how sick she was because she didn’t want to give the GOP the chance to replace her and screw us for generations. Damn 2020! Jesus we need a break!
'tireless'
No!
TheMominatrixx RBG: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”
RIP
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