Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead at 87

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‘Jurist of Historic Stature’ Is Lost to Cancer

By LINDA GREENHOUSE Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Su- preme Court and a pioneering ad- vocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cul- tural icon, died at her home in Washington on Friday. She was 87. The cause was complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said. By the time two small tumors were found in one of her lungs in December 2018, during a follow- up scan for ribs broken in a fall, Justice Ginsburg had beaten co- lon cancer in 1999 and early-stage pancreatic cancer 10 years later. She received a coronary stent to clear a blocked artery in 2014. Barely five feet tall and weigh- ing 100 pounds, Justice Ginsburg drew comments for years on her fragile appearance. But she was tough, working out regularly with a trainer, who published a book about his famous client’s challeng- ing exercise regime. As Justice Ginsburg passed her 80th birthday and 20th anniversa- ry on the Supreme Court bench during President Barack Obama’s second term, she shrugged off a chorus of calls for her to retire in TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES order to give a Democratic presi- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was part of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing throughout her tenure, and in her last decade was the most prominent member. dent the chance to name her re- placement. She planned to stay “as long as I can do the job full steam,” she would say, sometimes adding, “There will be a president Election Jolted as McConnell A Progressive Who Turned Dissent Into Victory after this one, and I’m hopeful that that president will be a fine presi- course. One of her favorite major- She had, for instance, voiced dent.” Vows a Vote on a Trump Pick By ADAM LIPTAK ity opinions, she often said, ruled doubts about the court’s reason- When Justice Sandra Day that the Virginia Military Insti- ing in Roe v. Wade, saying it had WASHINGTON — There was a O’Connor retired in January 2006, tute’s male-only admissions pol- moved too fast in establishing a framed copy of the Lilly Ledbetter Justice Ginsburg was for a time By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN icy violated the Equal Protection nationwide right to abortion. Fair Pay Act of 2009 on the wall of the only woman on the Supreme clause. The fears were misplaced. Over WASHINGTON — The death of scored the stakes of the contest the chambers of Justice Ruth Ba- Court — hardly a testament to the When President Bill Clinton put her 27 years on the court, she Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on between Mr. Trump and former der Ginsburg, who died on Friday. revolution in the legal status of Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme emerged as a champion of pro- Friday instantly upended the na- Vice President Joseph R. Biden She counted the law among her women that she had helped bring Court in 1993, some liberals feared gressive causes. By the time her tion’s politics in the middle of an Jr., his Democratic challenger. It proudest achievements, even as it about in her career as a litigator she would turn out be a moderate. already bitter campaign, giving also bolstered Mr. Trump’s effort illustrated her limited power. As Continued on Page A19 and strategist. to shift the subject away from his President Trump an opportunity part of the Supreme Court’s four- Her years as the solitary female to try to install a third member of handling of the coronavirus pan- member liberal wing, she did her justice were “the worst times,” she the Supreme Court with just demic and remind Republicans recalled in a 2014 interview. “The most memorable work in dissent. weeks before an election that polls why it matters whether he wins or image to the public entering the The law was a reaction to her show he is currently losing. not, while also potentially galva- courtroom was eight men, of a cer- minority opinion in Ledbetter v. The White House had already nizing Democrats who fear a tain size, and then this little wom- made quiet preparations in the change in the balance of power on Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com- an sitting to the side. That was not days before Justice Ginsburg’s the Supreme Court. pany, the 2007 ruling that said Ti- a good image for the public to see.” death to advance a nominee with- If Mr. Trump were able to re- tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of Eventually she was joined by two out waiting for voters to decide place Justice Ginsburg, a liberal 1964 imposed strict time limits for other women, both named by Mr. whether to give Mr. Trump an- icon, it could cement a conserva- bringing workplace discrimina- Obama: Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 other four years in the White tive majority for years to come, tion suits. She called on Congress and Elena Kagan in 2010. House. Senator Mitch McConnell, giving Republican appointees six to overturn the decision, and it After the 2010 retirement of Jus- the Republican leader, vowed Fri- of the nine seats. While Chief Jus- did. tice John Paul Stevens, whom Jus- day night to hold a vote on a tice John G. Roberts Jr. lately has On the court, however, her nota- tice Kagan succeeded, Justice Trump nominee but would not say sided at times with the four liber- ble victories were few. As she put Ginsburg became the senior whether he would try to rush it als on issues like immigration, gay it in a 2013 interview in her cham- member and de facto leader of a through before the Nov. 3 vote in rights and health care, he would bers, she was fully engaged in her four-justice liberal bloc, consist- what would surely be a titanic par- no longer be the swing vote on a work as the leader of the liberal ing of the three female justices tisan battle. court with another Trump ap- opposition on what she called “one and Justice Stephen G. Breyer. STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES The sudden vacancy on the pointee. of the most activist courts in his- Unless they could attract a fifth court abruptly transformed the The justice’s death presents a tory.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her Senate confirmation hearings in vote, which Justice Anthony M. presidential campaign and under- Continued on Page A19 There were exceptions, of 1993. Some liberals initially feared she would be a moderate. 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