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Showing Original Post only (View all)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg dead at 87 [View all]
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Last edited Sat Sep 19, 2020, 09:35 AM - Edit history (3)
Source: CNN
CNN)Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the court announced. She was 87.
Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing, consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html
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But but but..... A President* can't appoint a Supreme Court Justice in an election year
groundloop
Sep 2020
#32
You are welcome! If you don't add that link they are going to lock your thread.
BumRushDaShow
Sep 2020
#24
I could feel my heart fall as I just read that RBG passed. I am actually speechless--just sorrow.
riversedge
Sep 2020
#28
We're going to fight as hard as she did. She gave measure to how committed to justice we need to be.
marble falls
Sep 2020
#29
NO. We are NOT fucked! FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT and FIGHT s'more if necessary...
Onward AND Upward
Sep 2020
#36