For decades, Ginsburg brought her lived experience to the courtroom, and later, to the bench, on issue after issue, from reproductive rights to employment discrimination to access to public benefits.https://bit.ly/3hKesbh
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Justice Ginsburg's death coincides with this year's women's suffrage centennial, which is apt: Two of the most powerful forces for gender equality in the last century were the #19thAmendment and the 5-foot, one-inch legal force of nature.
From @emarvelous:https://19thnews.org/2020/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-legacy-gender-equity-discrimination-law/?utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_content=justice_ginsburgs_death_c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
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Ginsburg was born in 1933, the same year Thurgood Marshall graduated from Howard Law School. In much the same way that Marshall created the practice of civil rights law, Ginsburg would invent the practice of women's law.https://bit.ly/3hKesbh
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"She was among the people who challenged the court to imbue the meaning of equality as a bedrock principle with real meaning in the lives of real people," said NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill.https://bit.ly/3hKesbh
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Ginsburg's death also came 63 days after Congressman John Lewis. As
@emarvelous writes, what their lives and legacy represent for generations of Americans was also similar: An unmatched, unrelenting fight for justice and equality.https://bit.ly/3hKesbhShow this thread -
For many, their deaths represent the fall of two towering pillars of American democracy, without whom the path forward appears less clear. Their loss leaves those left behind feeling both grief and a resolve to fight on in their spirit. From
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