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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

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The cause of death was metastatic pancreatic cancer.Ginsburg, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in June 1993, authored some of the court's most significant cases, and often had biting dissents in those where she was in the minority.She is remembered for a famous quip during oral arguments in the Defense of Marriage Act case in 2013.In U.S.

v. Windsor, the high court struck down a key provision of DOMA, finding it unconstitutional. The court ruled that the federal government cannot discriminate against married lesbian and gay couples for the purposes of determining federal benefits and protections."You are really diminishing what the state has said is marriage," Ginsburg said to DOMA attorney Paul Clement during oral arguments,.

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