Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish woman who was a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.
Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.
Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of his race against Democrat Joe Biden is known.
Trump, who called Ginsburg “an amazing woman,” made his view clear on Saturday: He urged the Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming pick for the high court. “We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us,” Trump tweeted, “the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!”
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said late Friday that the Senate would vote, even though it’s an election year.
Biden said the winner of the November election should choose Ginsburg’s replacement. “There is no doubt — let me be clear — that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,” Biden told reporters after returning to Wilmington, Delaware, from campaign stops in Minnesota.
.@GOP We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2020
A great champion of woman’s rights
Trump has been the best president ever , especially for woman , blacks and latino. and lets not forget his love of yidden and Israel
Please add BDH
Her Leftist ideology brought harm to our country. While it’s sad for her family that she died, it will make room for a Conservative justice to take her place, which is a good thing. I hope she did teshuva before she passed.
You must add the whole dem party. They only want to destroy our great country
Liberalism has gotten out of hand. But Torah is not conservative over liberal. It’s a balance, it’s the truth in both. I believe that she did a lot of good for woman and for this country. We all have our flaws. But she did some real tangible good and she was a proud Jew. I don’t think we should be passing judgment and saying she needs to do Teshuvah. We all have Teshuvah to do and Hashem should have mercy on us all.
ברוך דיין האמת
Her full name at birth : Joan Ruth
Her father’s Name : Nathan
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I generally define myself as politically conservative, but as a woman, I know I owe Justice Ginsberg a huge debt for opening the doors of financial and business opportunity to women. BDE.
We will nominate someone who will bring us closer to the 7 noahide laws
I am shocked at the comments! She fought for equality for all! Didn’t matter what age, color, gender, role. She fought for this nation to be fair and not discriminate! Please educate yourself on facts before you judge people! May her memory be a blessing!!!!