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US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who became a hero of the American left in her more than a quarter of a century in the nation’s highest court, died Friday at the age of 87.
Here are some facts about Ginsburg:
* President Bill Clinton chose Ginsburg to be the second woman on the United States Supreme Court in 1993. After the retirement of Conservative Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006, Ginsburg was the only woman on the court before join fellow liberals Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and Elena Kagan in 2010.
* Ginsburg, who was born in New York on March 15, 1933, went to Cornell University and Harvard Law School before receiving his law degree from Columbia University, where he later taught. Following her graduation from Columbia, no New York City law firm attempted to hire her.
* While in private practice, Ginsburg won five women’s rights cases before the United States Supreme Court. She was quoted in Time magazine as saying that her strategy was “to attack the most widespread stereotype of the law: that men are independent and women are dependent on men.”
* On the Supreme Court, Bader developed a reputation as a tough interrogator and emerged as part of his liberal faction with little tolerance for sex discrimination. He wrote the 1996 court ruling that required the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or lose its state funding.
* Ginsburg faced numerous health problems and was treated for colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and 2019, and lung cancer in December 2018. In May 2020, she returned to the hospital for treatment for a benign condition of the gallbladder. She was hospitalized again on July 14 for an infection related to a previous treatment.
* In her later years, Ginsburg gained a new celebrity, becoming known as “Notorious RBG” after the late rapper Notorious BIG. An Oscar-nominated documentary film and a Hollywood biopic about her were released in 2018.
* Ginsburg was a friend of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative. They shared a love for opera
* She made her own headlines when she entered the 2016 presidential election by making a series of critical comments about Republican candidate Donald Trump. In an interview, she called him a “phony”.
* Ginsburg resisted calls by some liberals that he step down toward the end of President Barack Obama’s presidency to ensure that a Democratic president would appoint his successor.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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