Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and an activist for gender equality and women's rights. Read about her dissent on Trump, the book titled 'Notorious RBG' and her education.
Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, aged 87, of pancreatic cancer. She was the oldest justice and only the second ever woman to sit on the Supreme Court, where she sat for 27 years. As one of four liberal justices on the bench, her death raises the prospect that President Donald Trump will try and increase his slim Conservative majority - something that could have far-reaching implications for issues such as abortion rights in America.
Soon, she decided to turn her efforts to academia, and in 1963 became the first female tenured law professor at Rutgers Law School. She was one of fewer than 20 law professors in the US at the time. ‘Would the exemption...extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions ; antidepressants ; medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin ; and vaccinationsRuth Bader Ginsburg in Popular Culture:Ginsburg fell victim to meme therapy when her blistering dissents caught the attention of the Internet’s popular culture. Cue the creation of Notorious RBG – a riff on Notorious B.I.G.
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