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U.S. Supreme Court,
Obituaries

Sep. 21, 2020

US Supreme Court’s feminist icon is dead

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died late Friday of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87.

US Supreme Court’s feminist icon is dead
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013. (New York Times News Service)

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died late Friday of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87.

"Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement. "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 -...

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