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Remembering US supreme court justice, a liberal icon: Ruth Ginsburg

Her death less than two months before the election gives US President Donald Trump a chance to try to shift the already conservative court further to the right

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seated second right, with Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018. Photo: Bloomberg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seated second right, with Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018. Photo: Bloomberg

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg played a pivotal role in advancing the rights of women and became the second female justice in the US Supreme Court. At 87, after serving for 27 years in her legal career, Ginsburg died due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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Regarded as a champion of gender equality and women’s rights, she was nominated to the court by Bill Clinton in 1993.

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In 1956, Ginsburg attended Harvard Law School as a young mother and one of only nine women in the class of more than 550. She managed graduating while raising a child and taking care of her husband who was diagnosed with cancer, NYT reported.

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In 1972, Columbia Law School made her the first female tenured professor in its 114-year history, and she became the first director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project.

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Early on, at the ACLU, Ginsburg became a leading practitioner before the Supreme Court, planning and arguing sex-discrimination cases.

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