BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
, the senior liberal voice on the high court and a lifelong advocate of women’s equality, has died. She was 87.
Ginsburg was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1993, the first of President Bill Clinton’s two nominees. In recent years, Ginsburg, the second woman on the court, had obtained an iconic stature, the subject of an Oscar nominated documentary and a feature film last year. She obtained an iconic nickname, Notorious RBG, which reflected her status as a career-long champion of women’s equality.Ginsburg was the senior liberal justice on the court and, if President Donald Trump is able to fill the vacancy, it would solidify the court’s conservative majority 6-3.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote on Twitter, mirroring a statement that McConnell gave in 2016.
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