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Business Insider by Ashley Collman and Lauren Frias
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.
She died Friday evening at her home in Washington, DC. Her death was due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to an announcement from the Supreme Court.
“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in the statement. “Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
Ginsburg’s death gives President Donald Trump a third opportunity to nominate a lifetime appointee to the nation’s highest court, which would secure a conservative majority for decades to come.
Only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg had the rare opportunity to see herself become a feminist icon in her own time. Books and movies were made about her life. Dolls and action figures were created in her likeness, down to the trademark collars she wore over her black robes.
She was one of the most prominent Supreme Court justices in history, rising to a level of fame and historic achievement that seemed unlikely for a girl born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933. It was a time that, as she told Duke Law students in 2005, “the most important degree” for girls to get “was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.”
