Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice who established herself as a trailblazer for women’s rights and gender equality, died on Friday from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer.
She was 87.“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” Chief Justice John G.
Roberts, Jr. said. “Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”According to NPR, Ginsburg told her granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death that her “most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Ginsburg recently announced her cancer had returned, and.