Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the celebrated Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon, has died due to complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the Supreme Court announced on Friday. She was 87.
“Our Nation has lost a justice of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
Ginsburg, who was born in Brooklyn, upended the status quo throughout her life. She is most notably remembered for her precedent-setting legal work, co-founding the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU and successfully arguing landmark cases before the Supreme Court concerning gender discrimination against women and men.