Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, dies

For a decade, liberal America has held its breath: how long would Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s heart beat?

Few bodies have been the subject of as much speculation as the 154 centimeters of Ginsburg.

The Supreme Court of the United States has nine members. Donald Trump has already turned the court in a conservative direction through two male nominations. If he is allowed to replace Ginsburg with another Conservative member, the conservative majority of the court will be consolidated for the foreseeable future.

“It would be the end of civilization if Trump were allowed to appoint another member,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s longtime friend and fellow attorney Kathleen Peratis told DN last year.

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Liberal citizens shun a verdict that would criminalize abortion at the national level. But HD decides many crucial issues, such as those related to the right to vote, the participation of money in democracy, the legal status of minorities, the situation of refugees and immigrants. The soul of the United States is defined and recast by the court.

This is why so many people care about the health of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For years, she has been treated for ailments related to cancer. Now she couldn’t take it anymore, but she died in the suites from pancreatic cancer.

In the days before her death, Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter. Her most fervent wish was that the incumbent president not be allowed to nominate her replacement. Ginsburg hoped that a new president, if there were one after the November 3 election, would have the opportunity.

In 1993, Bill nominated Clinton to the Supreme Court, as the second woman in American history.

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But it was during the 1970s that Ginsburg made her most pioneering efforts for gender equality, when, as a lawyer, she filed a series of lawsuits that resulted in Americans becoming more equal before the law.

Towards the end of his life, he was the object of a kind of popular cultural cult. In the documentary “RBG,” you met the 86-year-old super aunt who worked all night and could do push-ups without cheating with her knees on the floor.

A brewery in Boston It had a spicy IPA produced as a Ginsburg tribute. The drink is called “When there are nine”, “When there are nine”. That was the standard response when Ginsburg was asked how many women must take a seat in court for her to be satisfied as a feminist.

Therefore, the Supreme Court has a total of nine seats.

In 2017, personal trainer Bryant Johnson published Ginsburg’s exercises in the book “The RBG Workout,” featuring illustrations of the client in purple leggings and a “SUPER DIVA” print sweatshirt. Ginsburg completed his training session on comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The late show.”

Barack Obama, a Ginsburg fan, took note of his physical progress. When the former president was invited to play basketball in the Supreme Court sports hall, he was hesitant in the face of the opposition because he heard that Ginsburg “was training on his jump shot,” he said.

Ginsburg called his lucky Obama for nice, his highest form of praise. He viewed Trump during the 2016 election campaign as a “phony” and a national security risk. The statements were in violation of the tradition that judges must behave politically neutral in public.

“A terrible mistake,” said Kathleen Peratis. Where it was made vulnerable to justified criticism. The president is an idiot, but it wasn’t her job to say so.

I November 2018 Ginsburg fell and broke three ribs. At the same time, doctors discovered lung cancer. In January of last year, he was absent from oral hearings for the first time in 25 years. But his friends repeatedly claimed that he intended to stay in court until at least November of this year, when Trump can be removed.

The combination of fragility and fucking hug contributed to his status as a legend.

– I think many young women find it wonderful with a modest little Jewish lady who is also a assassinPeratis said last year.

The combination of frailty and fucking hug contributed to his legendary status.

About Ruth Bader Ginsburg had its breakthrough in the 1970s, its worldview took shape during the previous decade.

In the early 1960s, he spent two longer periods in Lund and Stockholm studying and translating the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure and writing a book together with Anders Bruzelius, a Lund councilor. It was within the framework of a project that Columbia University in New York had launched: American legal scholars would go to Europe and study comparative law.

At the time of their stay in Sweden, about 20 percent of Swedish law students were women, while in the United States it was four. One day, Ginsburg visited a court in a Stockholm suburb where the judge was a woman and she was about seven months pregnant. It was like a mirage.

Ginsburg left at the same time impressions on your Swedish hosts. Co-author Anders Bruzelius’ daughter Karin, seven years younger than Ruth, would eventually move to Norway and become one of the country’s top lawyers. From 1997 to 2011, Bruzelius was a judge of the Supreme Court of Norway, its Supreme Court. Today, she is the president of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Affairs, 79 years old.

– As I got closer to my family, Ruth realized that you could live in a completely different way, that women could have a different lifestyle and that the legal position is what they had in the United States.

Ginsburg later realized Such a radical family life at home in America. Her husband Marty Ginsburg, who died of cancer in 2010, was one of the most competent tax attorneys in the United States. But he stepped back to allow his wife to prosper in professional life.

When the couple moved to Washington in 1980, the husband took command of the kitchen. In September 2003, he introduced his wife to the Georgetown University “Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program”. He then quoted his daughter Jane as saying ten years earlier in an interview that parents share the burden of the household equally: the father is responsible for cooking and the mother for thinking.

Marty Ginsburg served as “first husband” in a world where women had recently been relocated. He networked with politicians and journalists to raise his wife through the ranks of the strictly hierarchical world of judges.

– It was gorgeous, loud and completely crazy on Ruth, her friend Kathleen Peratis told DN. Many successful women are single or abstain from having children. Ruth had both, but she never had to deal with it shit that weighs on the lives of most women. She escaped the insecurity and jealousy that many men expose their wives to.

Independence and in later years the single life was part of the Ginsburg cult.

From his flat in the Watergate Building in Washington, a short distance from the Kennedy Center National Stage, he worked until the sun rose over the Potomac River.

In the end, maybe that’s what her life and work were all about: job satisfaction. To be able to give in to him. Karin Bruzelius, also a judge in Norway, says that is also the reason Ginsburg stayed on the Supreme Court to the end: the employees there were his family.

As a judge, Ginsburg was really far from radical. When President Carter nominated her to the Washington DC Court of Appeals in 1980, she began a period of consensus building in which, according to a 1987 study, she judged more often with Republican judges than with Democratic judges, even in cases where they bordered on his previous core issues as an activist.

In March 1993, the same year that Bill Clinton would nominate her for HD, she gave a lecture at New York University on the importance of collegiality and moderation in decision-making; virtues she inherited from her mother Celia, who often remembered the importance of acting like a “lady” and not breaking into crowded situations. Justices, Ginsburg said at the conference, should not take the lead in political development. Groups of women collapsed.

When Bill Clinton first applied after prospective HD members, Ginsburg turned out to be a risk factor, because he didn’t feel good about feminists. “Women are against her,” Clinton said. In her Ginsberg biography, Jane Sharron De Hart describes Ginsburg’s 13-year tenure as a Court of Appeals judge as a laundering process: To qualify for the Supreme Court, she had to be cleansed of all traces of feminist activism.

In the 1970s, Ginsburg seemed to be following in the footsteps of the great civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, but as a court supervisor, Ginsburg has not been inclusive of minorities. Of the 57 people he employed during his time on the Court of Appeals in Washington, none were African American.

Harvardhistorikern Jill Lepore writes in New Yorker magazine that the fan-created feminist cartoon character not only trivializes attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but also ignores her complexity and shortcomings.

– She is not radical, said last year her friend Kathleen Peratis. Your decision as a judge is in the middle. As an activist, I had one task, as a judge, another. Nothing he has done on the Supreme Court can be defined as radical.

Feminist fanatics were glad to point out Ginsburg’s “dissenters,” their divergent conclusions sharpening the further to the right the majority of the court moved. But it is not really Ginsburg’s reasoning that is radical, wrote Jill Lepore. Without the verdicts he criticizes.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the system. She didn’t try to undo it.

Last year I asked Jane Ginsburg.

What do you think should be learned from your mother and her career?

– Work hard and don’t feel sorry for yourself.

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