Tributes are pouring in after the news broke of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday.
The Supreme Courtmade known that Ginsburg died, surrounded by family members, due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer.
Hundreds of people gathered together outside the Supreme Court on Friday evening, where they chanted, “RBG! RBG!”
President Donald Trump also paid respect to Ginsburg, as he told reporters, “She led an amazing life. Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life.”
In a statement, the president wrote, “May her memory be a great and magnificent blessing to the world.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) noted that the flags were flying half staff over the U.S. Capitol.
“The loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is devastating,” Pelosi wrote in a statement. “Justice Ginsburg embodied justice, brilliance and goodness, and her passing is an incalculable loss for our democracy and for all who sacrifice and strive to build a better future for our children.”
“We must honor Justice Ginsburg’s trailblazing career and safeguard her powerful legacy by ensuring that the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court upholds her commitment to equality, opportunity and justice for all.”
2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden also said of Ginsburg, “She was an American hero, a giant of legal doctrine, and a relentless voice in the pursuit of that highest American ideal: Equal Justice Under Law.”
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“Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored,” former President Barack Obama wrote in a statement.
He noted:
“Over a long career on both sides of the bench — as a relentless litigator and an incisive jurist — Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are — and who we can be.”
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There were several reactions that flowed in on social media, including from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who wrote, “Justice Ginsburg paved the way for so many women, including me. There will never be another like her. Thank you RBG.”