The gap between her mother’s potential and opportunities haunted Ruth. Photograph: Kort Duce/AFP/Getty ImagesĬelia died of cancer when Ginsburg was just 17, after a short life of hard work and deflated hopes. Supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist administers the oath of office to newly-appointed justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 10 August 1993. Her career was defined by courageous dissents that stood up for the principle of equal justice and kept alive the promise of a more free and fair America. After she was elevated to the nation’s highest court, she found her own views moving left as the institution was pushed to the right. Over the course of a two-decade career as a lawyer before her appointment to the DC circuit court of appeals, she successfully argued cases that expanded civil rights law and 14th amendment protections to women, undoing a dense network of laws that had codified sex discrimination in all areas of American life.
Strategic, contemplative and disciplined, but with a passion for the feminist cause that is rarely admitted into the halls of power, Ginsburg established an impressive legal legacy long before she became a judge. She passed away due to complications from cancer on Friday. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a supreme court justice and singularly influential legal mind, was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993, the court’s second-ever female justice, and served for nearly 30 years. T he most important feminist lawyer in the history of the American republic has died.
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