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t. e. Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( / ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ / BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) [2] 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. [3] She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace ...
Apr 7, 2024 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 18, 2020, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Joan Ruth Bader was the younger of the two children of Nathan Bader, a merchant, and Celia ...
- 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...
Sep 18, 2020 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the Supreme Court’s feminist icon. Small, soft-spoken, yet fiercely determined, she was an unstoppable force who transformed the law and defied social conventions.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia Law School, going on to become a staunch courtroom advocate for the fair treatment of women and working with the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project. She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1980 and appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clintonin 1993.
Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. The second daughter of Nathan and Celia Bader, she grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. Ginsburg's mother, who was a major influence in her life, taught her the value of independence and a good education. Celia herself did not attend college, but...
Ginsburg earned her bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her class. She married law student Martin D. Ginsburgthat same year. The early years of their marriage were challenging, as their first child, Jane, was born shortly after Martin was drafted into the military in 1954. He served for two years and,...
Then, another challenge: Martin contracted testicular cancer in 1956, requiring intensive treatment and rehabilitation. Ginsburg attended to her young daughter and convalescing husband, taking notes for him in classes while she continued her own law studies. Martin recovered, graduated from law school, and accepted a position at a New York law firm...
In 1980 President Carter appointed Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She served there until she was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton, selected to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White. President Clinton wanted a replacement with the intellect and political skills to deal with ...
Despite her reputation for restrained writing, she gathered considerable attention for her dissenting opinion in the case ofBush v. Gore, which effectively decided the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Objecting to the court's majority opinion favoring Bush, Ginsburg deliberately and subtly concluded her decision with t...
In 2015, Ginsburg sided with the majority in two landmark Supreme Court rulings. On June 25th she was one of the six justices to uphold a critical component of the 2010 Affordable Care Act — often referred to as Obamacare — in King v. Burwell. The decision allows the federal government to continue providing subsidies to Americans who purchase healt...
Ginsburg notably opposed the potential of a Donald Trumppresidency in 2016, at one point calling him a "faker," before apologizing for publicly commenting on the campaign. In January 2018, after the president released a list of Supreme Court candidates in preparation for the looming retirement of elderly justices, the 84-year-old Ginsburg signaled ...
In 2016 Ginsburg released My Own Words, a memoir filled with her writings that date as far back as her junior high school years. The book became a New York Times Best Seller. In January 2018 Ginsburg appeared at the Sundance Film Festival to accompany the premiere of the documentary RBG. Touching on the #MeToo movement, she recalled an earlier time...
Ginsburg endured several health scares after being appointed to the bench, undergoing surgery for colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. She was hospitalized in November 2018 after falling in her office and fracturing three ribs. In May 2020, one day after the Court heard arguments via teleconference for the first time due to the coronavi...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and a champion of gender equality. From her early years in Brooklyn to her role as a legal advocate and professor, discover how she became a trailblazer for women's rights and civil rights.
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Learn about the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman and first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court. From facing gender discrimination as a law student to becoming a champion of gender equality and women's rights, discover how she inspired generations of women to break gender barriers.
Sep 18, 2020 · Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn in 1933 and went to Cornell, where she met Martin Ginsburg. They married and enrolled at Harvard Law School, which had only just begun admitting women.
