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  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
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AffiliationDemocratic  
<-  2010-09-01  
 
NameRuth Bader Ginsburg
Address
, New York , United States
EmailNone
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Born March 15, 1933
DiedSeptember 18, 2020 (87 years)
ContributorRP
Last ModifedAn_62190
Sep 18, 2020 06:41pm
Tags Jewish - Widowed - Cancer -
InfoAssociate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959?1961. From 1961?1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963?1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972?1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977?1978. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women?s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU?s General Counsel from 1973?1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974?1980. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.


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01/26/2020-01/28/2020 YouGov 45.00% ( 0.0) 27.00% ( 0.0) 28.00% ( 0.0)

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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law  Purchase RP 

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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Aug 23, 2019 01:30pm News Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For Cancer  Article RP 
Dec 21, 2018 11:20pm News Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery For Lung Cancer  Article RP 
Nov 08, 2018 08:20am News Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs  Article RP 
Oct 07, 2013 07:00am Profile The question facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Stay or go?  Article Imperator 
Aug 30, 2013 10:00am News Ginsburg will be first justice to officiate at same-sex wedding  Article Homegrown Democrat 
Jul 04, 2013 12:00pm News Supreme Court's Ginsburg vows to resist pressure to retire  Article ScottĀ³ 

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  09/25/2020 Lain In State/Honor - U S Capitol Rotunda Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/03/1993 Supreme Court - Associate Justice Won 96.97% (+93.94%)
  06/18/1980 D.C. Circuit Court Judge Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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