Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. - RBG

Misbar’s investigation found that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, September 18, 2020 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Ginsburg, nicknamed the “Notorious RBG,” served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death. Nominated by President Bill Clinton, she was a champion for gender and racial equality. 

When she was appointed as Supreme Court Justice, she was the first Jewish justice since 1969. She would go on to become the longest-serving Jewish justice of all time. Upon John Paul Stevens’ retirement in 2010, Ginsburg, then 77, became the oldest justice on the court. She then served for 10 more years before dying in 2020 at age 87, making her the 4th-oldest U.S. Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

A star graduate of Columbia Law School, Ginsburg began her fight for women’s rights in the 1970s. In 1971, she wrote her first Supreme Court brief that dismantled a state law because it discriminated based on gender. In 1980, she pioneered the legal battle for gender equality, demanding that women have equal opportunity, pay, and legal treatment as men. By 1996, she wrote a landmark opinion stating that public government institutions could not exclude women simply on the basis of sex.

Ginsburg's innumerable accomplishments are too many to name, but her greatest are discussed in the video below.

Ginsburg was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer in 2009. In 2018, a CT scan following a fall that left her with three fractured ribs revealed cancerous nodules in her lungs. In 2019, she underwent treatment for pancreatic cancer. By May 2020, the cancer had returned, and complications from it would kill her four months later. Soon before she died, she allegedly said to her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."

Upon learning of her death, Chief Justice John Roberts said: “Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature. 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 tireless and resolute champion of justice."

President Donald Trump's and Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden’s reactions to Ginsburg’s death follow.

I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. - RBG