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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ ˈ b eɪ d ər ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ / BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
Apr 23, 2024 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020. The second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she became an articulate representative of liberal perspectives on the Court and eventually the leader of the Court’s minority liberal bloc.
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1993 to 2020. She was the second w...
- Who nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court?Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993. She was confirmed by the Se...
- What notable cases did Ruth Bader Ginsburg write dissents for?Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote and sometimes read aloud strongly worded dissents, including her dissents in the Gonzales v. Carhart and Ledbetter v. Goo...
- Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg a feminist?Ruth Bader Ginsburg is widely regarded as a feminist icon. Among her many activist actions during her legal career, Ginsburg worked to upend legisl...
She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993. Justice Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020.
May 7, 2021 · Learn about the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. She was a pioneer for gender equality, a moderate-liberal judge and a dissenting voice in Bush v. Gore.
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Sep 18, 2020 · Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications...
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Sep 18, 2020 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg, scholar, lawyer, judge, and Justice, died on Friday at the age of eighty-seven. Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for,...
Sep 18, 2020 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural...
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