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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020

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  1. Apr 23, 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

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    Ruth Joan Bader, the second daughter of Nathan and Cecelia Bader grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Ginsburg's family was Jewish. Ginsburg’s mother, a major influence in her life, taught her the value of independence and a good education. Cecelia herself did not attend college but instead worked in a garment ...

    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 Jimmy Carter appointed Ruth Bader 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 Bill Clinton, selected to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White. President Clinton wanted a replacement with the intellect and politic...

    Despite her reputation for restrained writing, she gathered considerable attention for her dissenting opinion in the case of Bush 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 ...

  4. May 7, 2021 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a U.S. Supreme Court justice, the second woman to be appointed to the position. By Biography.com Editors Updated: May 7, 2021 Getty Images

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  5. 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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  6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund ...

  7. Sep 18, 2020 · Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society, according to Linda Greenhouse, contributing ...

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