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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Last Wish: “I Will Not Be Replaced Until A New President Is Installed.”
Feminist icon and legal powerhouse Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87 due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced. She died in her home in Washington, D.C., surrounded by her family.It’s hard to overstate Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg‘s contributions to the legal fight for women’s rights over the years. During her 27-year career on the Supreme Court, she argued for equal pay for men and women, women’s participation in the military, and for reproductive rights. In many of her famous cases, she was a dissenting voice: In 2014, she wrote a passionate dissent from the court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which allowed some companies to refuse to comply with a federal mandate to cover birth control in healthcare plans on religious grounds. She said this would “deny legions of women who do not…
