Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg ESQ dies at 87

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Just announced on MSNBC, confirmed by CNN and Fox that Justice Ginsberg died today.  Will post print link when available.

Yesterday, 9/17/20 she was awarded Philadelphia's Liberty Medal

The National Constitution Center awarded the 32nd annual Liberty Medal to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for her efforts to advance liberty and equality for all. To celebrate Justice Ginsburg, the Center aired a video tribute featuring performances by internationally renowned opera singers and tributes from special friends of Justice Ginsburg.

https://constitutioncenter.org/liberty-medal/

 

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A classy lady and often a calm, reasoned voice in an often temultuous court.  She will be missed.

 

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Breaking AP News   9/18/2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

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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.

Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.

Ginsberg’s death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of his race against Democrat Joe Biden is known.

Ginsburg announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her liver, the latest of her several battles with cancer.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/supreme-court-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-20200918.html

 

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NPR:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.

The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family. She was 87.

"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.",,,

,,,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."

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87

 

 

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The Federalist   9/19/2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was A Great American

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We talk too much about America these days and far too little about Americans. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away at 87 on Friday, was first and foremost a great American. She was not only a woman who rose in the legal profession at a time when that was fraught with challenges, she demanded that she be able to do so while raising a family. And that is exactly what she did, rising in 1993 to the pinnacle of law, the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ginsburg was a partisan. Some justices are, some aren’t, but her dear friend and fellow justice Antonin Scalia was too. Maybe it’s part of why they got along so well. She viewed the Constitution as a living document. Do conservatives think she often went too far? Of course we do, but she defended her view of our government in good faith, and she clearly earned the deep respect not only of her colleagues on the court, but of Americans as a whole....

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/19/ruth-bader-ginsburg-was-a-great-american/

 

 

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https://Twitter.com/marty_lederman/status/1307344401472131074/photo/1

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Love this Supreme Court photo... wearing one of her decision collars.

 

NY Times 9/20/2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Lace Collar Wasn’t an Accessory, It Was a Gauntlet

Also, a signature. And a symbol, with all sorts of meanings woven into each choice.

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...Her dissent collar, a spiky bejeweled necklace on a black band from Banana Republic that had been gifted to her when she was named a Glamour Woman of the Year in 2012, she wore when she read her equally spiky dissents from the bench. (She also wore it the day after the 2016 election, which no one thought was a coincidence; the dissent collar became so famous on its own that it was memorialized in jewelry, magnets and temporary tattoos.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/style/rbg-style.html

Katie Couric News Video  July 31, 2014

Justice Ginsburg Exhibits Her Famous Collar Collection

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric an exclusive look at her famous jabot (collar) collection and tells the stories behind them.

The occasion was an interview with Katie Couric after Justice Ginsburg’s strongly-worded, 35-page dissent in the Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby decision, in which the court sided with a corporation’s desire to challenge the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate on the grounds of religious freedom. 

Dissent Collar

https://news.Yahoo.com/video/justice-ginsburg-exhibits-her-famous-194517521.html

 

 

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I just love those beautiful collars on lady judges!  Something distinguished that only a lady can wear.  Kind of like the long gone nursing cap.

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Justice Ginsberg's husband Marty did the cooking for over 50 years...

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I suspect her death will lead to more seats on the bench and term limits for justices.