Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived from 1933 to 2020 and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death, the second woman to sit on that Court. Before her judicial appointments she co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and argued a series of landmark sex-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s, methodically establishing that the Equal Protection Clause applies to gender-based classifications. As a judge on the D.C. Circuit and then the Supreme Court she became a leading voice on gender equality, civil procedure and separation-of-powers doctrine, and her dissenting opinions in her later years drew wide public attention.
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RoleAssociate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York, U.S. 3 Place of Death Classification
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Why was Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the Notorious R.B.G.?
It came from her fiery dissents and echoed the rapper the Notorious B.I.G.
The nickname grew out of her increasingly fiery dissents, particularly in Shelby County v. Holder. It was coined as a takeoff on the name of a rap star, the Notorious B.I.G. She served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020, and was the second woman to serve on the Court.
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She argued in a speech shortly before her nomination to the Court that "[m]easured motions seem to me right, in the main, for constitutional as well as common law adjudication.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1993 to 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
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Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
final section, death sentence
Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Legacy and popular culture section
Her increasingly fiery dissents, particularly in Shelby County v. Holder, led to the creation of a sobriquet, "the Notorious R.B.G." (a takeoff on the name of a rap star, the Notorious B.I.G.), which became an internet meme after starting on Tumblr.
- Member Of: United States Supreme Court, lead states served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020
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birth name (P1477): Joan Ruth Bader
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