Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away

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She was a trail-blazer and a great role model. Despite her serious health issues, she continued to work. I admired her stoicism and great dignity.

R.I.P. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 😥
 

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You were an inspiration to millions of us! R.I.P. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 😥 You will be missed.

Justice Ginsburg fiercely loved our country and sought to make America a more perfect union.

Now, it is up to the rest of us to carry on her work. We can finish the fight she started. Our thoughts are with her family. May she rest in power.

This is so sad.
 
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All true, what’s said above. I admired her so. She did so much for women and ordinary people in general and human rights. i think she’d fought her illnesses so hard because she knew how much we needed her. A weaker person would have retired before carrying all those burdens so long. Bless her brave soul.
 
I heard the news this morning and today I have been wearing a pin on my collar in the shape of her judgement collar. My daughter gave it to me. We have both been admirers of this remarkable woman for quite a few years.

Long may her name be remembered.
Rest now, Dear Lady, for you have surely earned it.
 
I'm saddened by her death.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/1003...nsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
"Mrs. Ginsburg, despite scoring high on the civil service exam, could only get a job as a typist, and when she became pregnant, she lost even that job.

"Two years later, the couple returned to the East Coast to attend Harvard Law School. She was one of only nine women in a class of more than 500 and found the dean asking her why she was taking up a place that "should go to a man.

"At Harvard, she was the academic star, not her husband. The couple were busy juggling schedules and their toddler when Marty Ginsburg was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Surgeries and aggressive radiation followed.
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"Marty Ginsburg survived, graduated and got a job in New York; his wife, a year behind him in school, transferred to Columbia, where she graduated at the top of her law school class. Despite her academic achievements, the doors to law firms were closed to women, and though recommended for a Supreme Court clerkship, she wasn't even interviewed.

"It was bad enough that she was a woman, she recalled later, but she was also a mother, and male judges worried she would be diverted by her "familial obligations."

"A mentor, law professor Gerald Gunther, finally got her a clerkship in New York by promising Judge Edmund Palmieri that if she couldn't do the work, he would provide someone who could. That was "the carrot," Ginsburg would say later. "The stick" was that Gunther, who regularly fed his best students to Palmieri, told the judge that if he didn't take Ginsburg, Gunther would never send him a clerk again. The Ginsburg clerkship apparently was a success; Palmieri kept her not for the usual one year, but two, from 1959-61.
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"Her first big case was a challenge to a law that barred a Colorado man named Charles Moritz from taking a tax deduction for the care of his 89-year-old mother. The IRS said the deduction, by statute, could only be claimed by women, or widowed or divorced men. But Moritz had never married.

"The tax court concluded that the Internal Revenue Code was immune to constitutional challenge, a notion that tax lawyer Marty Ginsburg viewed as "preposterous." The two Ginsburgs took on the case — he from the tax perspective, she from the constitutional one.

"According to Marty Ginsburg, for his wife, this was the "mother brief." She had to think through all the issues and how to fix the inequity. The solution was to ask the court not to invalidate the statute but to apply it equally to both sexes. She won in the lower courts.
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"In 1971, she would write her first Supreme Court brief in the case of Reed v. Reed. Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented Sally Reed, who thought she should be the executor of her son's estate instead of her ex-husband.

"The constitutional issue was whether a state could automatically prefer men over women as executors of estates. The answer from the all-male Supreme Court: no.

"It was the first time the court had struck down a state law because it discriminated based on gender.
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"Knowing that she had to persuade male, establishment-oriented judges, she often picked male plaintiffs, and she liked Social Security cases because they illustrated how discrimination against women can harm men. For example, in Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, she represented a man whose wife, the principal breadwinner, died in childbirth. The husband sought survivor's benefits to care for his child, but under the then-existing Social Security law, only widows, not widowers, were entitled to such benefits.
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"...I get out of law school. I have top grades. No law firm in the city of New York will hire me. I end up teaching; it gave me time to devote to the movement for evening out the rights of women and men."
 
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