",President Jimmy Carter named her to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1980. The week after the election, the court will once again hear a Republican challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a law it upheld in 2012 by a 5-4 vote, with Roberts writing the majority opinion.Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933.

In a public television documentary about Jewish Americans, Ms Ginsburg said: “What’s the difference between a bookkeeper in New York’s Garment District and a US supreme court justice? In a statement upon her death, he called her "a powerful legal mind" and "a beacon of justice. ".Her husband then took a job in New York and she transferred to law school at Columbia, where she received her degree.In the 1970s Ginsburg became the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing and winning precedent-setting gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court.

She was the second woman named to the court after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who had been appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981.During Obama's administration, some liberals called on Ginsburg to retire so a Democratic president could name her successor. During her tenure, the court declared it unconstitutional for states to execute the intellectually disabled and killers younger than 18.She voted most often with the other liberal-leaning justices, fellow Clinton appointee Mr Breyer and two Republican appointees, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, then later with former president Barack Obama’s two appointees, Ms Sotomayor and Ms Kagan.“Hope springs eternal,” she said in 2007, “and when I am writing a dissent, I’m always hoping for that fifth or sixth vote — even though I’m disappointed more often than not.”.Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn in 1933, the second daughter in a middle-class family. “A retired partner.”.Martin Ginsburg went on to become a prominent tax attorney and law professor at Georgetown University.Ms Ginsburg was a law professor at Rutgers University and Columbia, then later a federal appeals court judge for 13 years. ".Ginsburg, who had battled cancer over the last several years, died of "complications of metastatic pancreas cancer" at her home, the court said. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tried and resolute champion of justice.

Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. One generation.”.She first gained fame as a litigator for the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was 87. She later said she’d had more than her share of “mazel” – the Hebrew word for luck – to help her along in life.“Suppose there had been a Wall Street firm interested in hiring me? "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. The court is just weeks away from starting its next term, and Ginsburg's passing means that Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative who has sided with liberals on multiple landmark decisions, will no longer wield the controlling vote in tight cases — rendering outcomes uncertain until the seat is filled.Several major cases loom. The justices filed into the courtroom that Monday, and Ms Ginsburg was there.

Her dream, she had said, was to be an opera singer.Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cancer the night before Ms Ginsburg, then 17, was to graduate from high school.Justice Ginsburg paved the way for so many women, including me. She was surrounded by her family.Ginsburg served 27 years on the court, and was widely seen as a diminutive firebrand with a brilliant mind, whose legal acumen was revered across the political spectrum. She was 87. Thank you RBG.Celia Bader never attended college but worked as a bookkeeper. “I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other,” she wrote. There will never be another like her. She was the court’s second woman and its sixth Jewish justice, but in time was joined by two other Jews, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, and two other women, Ms Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.Ms Ginsburg’s journey to the US Supreme Court, where people gathered following her death, began when she left law school in 1959 (Alex Brandon/AP).Both developments were perhaps unthinkable when Ms Ginsburg graduated from law school in 1959 and faced the triple bogey of looking for work as a woman, a mother and a Jew.Forty years later, she noted that religion had become irrelevant in the selection of high-court justices and that gender was heading in the same direction, though when asked how many women would be enough for the high court, Ms Ginsburg replied without hesitation: “Nine.”.She was nominated for her position on America’s highest court by former president Bill Clinton in 1993.Ms Ginsburg was nominated to the court by Bill Clinton (Marcy Nighswander/AP).Her time as a justice was marked by triumphs for equality for women, as in her opinion for the court ordering the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding.There were setbacks, too.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a legal pioneer for gender equality who became the second woman ever to serve on the nation’s highest court and ultimately a pop culture icon, died Friday. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored. WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. What would I be today?” she said in 2007.
Associated Press articles: Copyright © 2016 The Associated Press.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneering advocate for gender equality who became a cultural icon among liberals, died on Friday, the Supreme … She had worked on the legal team that persuaded the high court to rule for the first time ever in 1970 that a state had violated the US constitution by denying women equal treatment.Appearing at a law school forum in 2008, she noted with relief that there was no retirement age for US judges.“We hold our offices during good behaviour,” Ms Ginsburg said, citing language from the American constitution. The family returned to the East Coast, where Ginsburg entered Harvard Law School — one of nine women in a class of over 500. Her older sister, who gave her the lifelong nickname “Kiki”, died aged six, so Ms Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section as an only child. “I have no talent in the arts, but I do write fairly well and analyse problems clearly.”,The justice, pictured with Joe Biden, right, died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87 (Marcy Nighswander/AP).Besides civil rights, Ms Ginsburg took an interest in capital punishment, voting repeatedly to limit its use. She attended Harvard University’s law school but transferred to Columbia University when her husband took a law job in New York.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. "And the Supreme Court woke up to that reality in 1971. ".President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg for the Supreme Court in 1993, when she was 60.