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WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice appointed to the court by president Bill Clinton in 1993 and a judicial icon on issues ranging from abortion, voting and Civil Rights, to same sex marriage, immigration, healthcare, affirmative action and desegregation, has died.
An associate justice and three-time cancer survivor, she was 87 and died Sept 18 at her home in Washington, D.C. from metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from the court.
Justice Ginsburg had toyed with cancer for years, and her battles with the disease for which there is no cure are well documented, including her on-and-off treatments for lung, colon and pancreatic cancers since 1999, and extensive chemotherapy to fight the pancreatic cancer, a case study in cancer research, to some degree.
She is survived by two grown children, Jane C. Ginsburg, and James Steven Ginsburg
At her death she was one of four liberals on the court, and one of three females, along side of Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer, both of them liberals too, and appointed by a Democratic president like Ginsburg, but by president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.
There are no Black women on the court, and one Black justice, Justice Clarence Thomas, a president George W. Bush appointee and an ultra-conservative considered in large part to be anti-Black and against women's issues.
Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.
During her tenure on the court, Ginsburg authored notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000).
She was a woman's rights advocate, and she graced the cover of Time Magazine in 1996 as one of 100 powerful women that year.
Following O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and until Justice Sotomayor joined the Court in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court.
During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, which were noted by legal observers and in popular culture.
Her death comes less than seven weeks before the Nov 3 presidential election that pits incumbent Republican President Donald Trump up against Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee and the former vice president under Obama.
Whether President Trump will scramble to replace Justice Ginsburg on the nine-member high court bench before the election or the completion of his first four-year term remains to be seen.
Since taking office in 2017 following a heated election in 2016 with Democrat Hillary Clinton, President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
In the United States the president nominates someone for a vacancy on the court and the Senate votes to reject or to confirm the nominee, which requires a simple majority.
In this way, both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government have a voice in the composition of the Supreme Court, though Congress is divided, the Democrats controlling the House of Representatives, and the Republicans, the Senate, which has sole authority to confirm or reject a Supreme Court nominee independent of the House.
It is likely, said sources, that President Trump will attempt to push through a justice to replace Ginsburg, but not without a fight from the Democrats, and as Biden leads in double digits in the polls, and in most of the swing states.
Time is also of essence.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the average number of days from nomination of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice to final Senate vote since 1975 is 67 days or roughly two months, while the median is 71 days.
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