US Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. 9News
She told an audience in 2019 that she liked to keep busy even when she was fighting cancer.
She later said she regretted making the comments and Trump suggested she should recuse herself in cases concerning him. She never did."She's one of my favourites," he said, "I've got a soft spot for Justice Ginsburg." Once she took the bench, Ginsburg had the reputation of a "judge's judge" for the clarity of her opinions that gave straight forward guidance to the lower courts.
Ginsburg faced discrimination herself when she graduated from law school in 1959 and could not find a clerkship. In 2007, the court heard a case concerning Lilly Ledbetter, who had worked as a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama. In 2015, it was Ginsburg who led the liberal block of the court as it voted in favor of same-sex marriage with the critical fifth vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy.Ginsburg was likely behind that strategy and she said later that had she written the majority she might have put more emphasis on equal protection.
She compared racial discrimination to a "vile infection" and said early attempts to protect against it were like "battling the Hydra." Although she said she felt like the result was right, she thought the Supreme Court should have limited itself to the Texas statute at hand instead of issuing a sweeping decision that created a target for opponents to abortion rights.
In July , Ginsburg filed another fierce dissent when the conservative majority allowed the Trump administration to expand exemptions for employers who have religious or moral objections to complying with the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. She was a life-long opera fan who appeared onstage in 2016 at the Kennedy Center for a non-speaking role in the Washington National Opera's "The Daughter of the Regiment."
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