Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is greatly known for her lifelong fight for women’s rights. She was a feminist icon that so many people, men and women, looked up to. 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 after being appointed by President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg attended Cornell University and received her bachelor’s degree in government in 1954. She then continued her education at Harvard Law School before transferring to Columbia Law School where she graduated first in her class in 1959. After graduating Ginsburg became a professor at Rutgers University Law School. She then later went to work as a professor at Columbia.
Her Impact
Throughout her career Ginsburg’s core argument was “equal protection” under the law, as promised by the Fourteenth Amendment. Ginsburg has done many things that has impacted our everyday lives. In the 1970’s she directed the influential Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Ginsburg served a total of 27 years on the Supreme Court. During which she kept up her main focus which was gender discrimination. Some of her more recent notabilities include her vote in favor of the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges which legalized same sex marriage. In 2016 Ginsburg also cast her vote in support of Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt on abortion rights.
The Service
On September 20th, 2020 the Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg sadly left us. She had been dealing with complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer which 
she was first diagnosed with in 2009. After the news of her passing many people went to the Supreme Court to pay their respects to the women who has does so much to impact people’s lives. There were multiple memorials that included flowers, pictures, and candles as a sign to paying respects to Ginsburg. There was a private service held for Ginsburg’s family, friends and colleagues at the Supreme Court’s Great Hall on Wednesday September 23rd, 2020. Ginsburg was then transferred to the top of the Supreme Court’s font steps where say laid in response on Wednesday from 11am to 10pm. She was then transferred to the Capitol building where she laid in response from 9am to 10pm. Both of these were public viewings for anyone to come and pay their respects.
The Future of the Supreme Court…
Her death means that there is a high possibility for Trump’s third appointee, which would bring the number of Republican Supreme Court Justices to a total of six. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the possibility that President Trump will name her replacement has further raised speculations of many issues including the reversal of Roe vs. Wade. If Roe v. Wade were to be reversed it would have catastrophic effects to many woman and families. Another issue that could arise would be the Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. which deals with the pay gap between genders and focuses on equal pay. These are just a couple, yet major examples of the strides that Ruth Bader Ginsburg made that could be completely overturned. As of now Ruth’s seat on the Supreme Court remains vacant but President Trump and the republican party are determined to change that. Doing so close to an election really shakes the fate in country. Not only that but the fact that replacing her so close to the election shows major hypocrisy from the republican party based on the fact that they fought President Obama tooth and nail about his nominee so close to the 2016 election. It is sad to have to say goodbye to a hero. But hero’s live on and the work that Ruth Bader Ginsburg did throughout her lifetime will not be forgotten not even in the slightest bit. I can only hope that the future of the Supreme Court does not dismantle all that she has done for Americans and for this country.
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