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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (⫽ ˈ b eɪ d ər ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ ⫽ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
May 29, 2024 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020. The second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, she became an articulate representative of liberal perspectives on the Court and eventually the leader of the Court’s minority liberal bloc.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1993 to 2020. She was the second w...
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993. She was confirmed by the Se...
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote and sometimes read aloud strongly worded dissents, including her dissents in the Gonzales v. Carhart and Ledbetter v. Goo...
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg is widely regarded as a feminist icon. Among her many activist actions during her legal career, Ginsburg worked to upend legisl...
May 7, 2021 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a U.S. Supreme Court justice, the second woman to be appointed to the position.
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Sep 18, 2020 · A century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pioneering career as a scholar, advocate, and judge stands as a monument to the power of dissent.
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Sep 18, 2020 · Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the Supreme Court’s feminist icon. Small, soft-spoken, yet fiercely determined, she was an unstoppable force who transformed the law and defied social...
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Jun 10, 2022 · Former U.S. Ambassador Swanee Hunt is a longtime supporter of women’s rights, funder of Democratic causes, and admirer of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But she recently found it difficult to look ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and a champion of gender equality. Explore her early struggles, legal career, landmark cases, and death in 2020.
