China News Service, September 19th. On September 18, local time, Justice Ginsberg of the U.S. Supreme Court passed away at the age of 87.

As the most senior and highly popular female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsberg devoted her life to fighting for, safeguarding and protecting women's rights.

　　The White House and Congress lowered their flags at half mast.

U.S. President Trump said: "Whether you agree or not, she is an amazing woman with an amazing life." Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mourned: "Judge Ginsberg is for many women, including me. Paved the way, there will be no one like her again." Chief Justice John Roberts said: "Our future generations will remember Ruth Bud Ginsberg as we know them. A tired but firm defender of justice."

Data map: Justice Ginsberg of the United States Supreme Court.

Committed to fighting for women's rights

　　Ruth Bad Ginsberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933 to Russian Jewish immigrants.

Her early life gave her a profound experience of gender discrimination in American society at that time.

　　Ginsburg received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

Ginsberg got married after graduating from college and had her first child shortly afterwards, but was demoted in the social security department where she worked due to pregnancy.

　　In the fall of 1956, Ginsberg entered Harvard Law School and became one of only nine girls out of 500 students in the class.

However, the dean of the law school at the time asked the female students to explain why he needed to give up the male quota and admit them.

　　Ginsberg then transferred to Columbia Law School and graduated with first place, but found it difficult to find a job in New York.

She recalled many years later, "No law firm in New York is willing to hire me because I am a Jew, a woman, and a mother."

　　In 1963, Ginsberg became a professor of law at Rutgers University in New Jersey and founded the non-profit organization American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s Women’s Rights Program.

Ten years later, after she became ACLU's lawyer, she has repeatedly fought for women's rights in courts, including 6 cases and went to the Federal Supreme Court.

　　The report pointed out that Ginsberg adopted a clever strategy. Instead of asking the Supreme Court to immediately end all gender discrimination, he formulated a strategic policy to target specific discriminatory regulations and apply them on the basis of each victory. development of.

She chooses plaintiffs carefully, sometimes choosing male plaintiffs to prove that sex discrimination is harmful to both men and women.

Data map: Family portrait of the Supreme Court of Justice of the United States, with Ginsberg in the front row and second from right.

(Image source: U.S. Supreme Judge Network)

The second female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

　　In 1980, the then US President Carter set out to make the US courts more diverse in gender and race, and appointed Ginsberg as a judge of the U.S. District of Columbia Court of Appeal.

After taking office, she was known for her position as a middle ground. In many cases, she voted for conservatives, and in other cases, she would resolutely oppose conservatives.

　　In 1993, former US President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsberg as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Clinton accepted an interview with American media many years later and said that the meeting with her made himself a decision, "Within 15 minutes, I decided that I would nominate her."

　　She is the second female Supreme Court justice in American history. The first female justice is Sandra Day O'Connor.

　　After Ginsberg entered the Federal Supreme Court, one of the most important cases before it was an order to repeal the rule that only male students were admitted to the Virginia Military Academy.

In her judgment, she pointed out that the United States should not have any laws or policies restricting women's "full citizenship", and should also allow women to use their own skills to make contributions to society.

　　American legal scholars have recognized that Ginsberg has made significant legal progress for women under the constitutional equal protection clause.

Her work directly led to the end of gender discrimination in many legal fields.

　　Her evaluation of herself is, “The most satisfying thing in my life is that I participated in a movement that can make life better, and the beneficiaries of this movement are not only women. "

Data map: Justice Ginsberg of the United States Supreme Court.

Energetic, once wanted to work until the age of 90

　　The 87-year-old Ginsberg has gone through many battles with cancer and still has no plans to retire.

During the inauguration of former US President Barack Obama, there were liberal calls for Ginsberg's resignation, so that Obama could nominate another judge who was considered enlightened to enter the Supreme Court, but Ginsberg refused.

　　In October 2017, when asked about retirement, Ginsberg said, "As long as I can do my best, I will continue to do it."

　　On November 8, 2018, Ginsberg accidentally broke three ribs and was sent to the hospital for treatment. Later, during the diagnosis and treatment at George Washington University Hospital, she was accidentally found to have lung cancer, and then underwent surgery to remove the malignant tuberculosis. .

　　Ginsberg’s accident made the liberals very nervous.

Because after Trump appointed Kavanaugh as the Supreme Court Justice and succeeded the retired Justice Kennedy, the conservatives have gained a 5 to 4 advantage in the Supreme Court.

If Ginsberg leaves, it will give Trump a chance to "build" a Supreme Court with the strongest conservative majority in decades.

　　However, Ginsberg said that she will be 90 years old before considering retirement.

Regrettably, with the repeated illness, her wish was not fulfilled.

Data map: A doll in the image of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg.

　Legendary life, leading the trend

　　As a prestigious judge, Ginsberg also entered the American trend culture.

The accounts opened by American law school female students Shana Knizhnik and Irin Carmon on social networking sites with Ginsberg as the protagonist brought her into the eyes of young American feminists.

　　The maverick Ginsberg transformed into a trend symbol.

Everything in her daily life has become a trend, and her clothes have become the focus, including the collar she often wears on judges' robes, and has also become an object of imitation by the outside world.

　　Her image also inspired business inspirations such as nail art, shaking head dolls, tattoos, T-shirts, coffee cups and children's coloring books.

Ginsberg admitted that she herself stocked a large number of T-shirts with related themes and distributed them to fans as gifts.

　　Ginsberg subverts the traditional image of justices of rigor and privacy, and has a large number of "fans."

In October 2015, "The'Notorious' RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bad Ginsberg" was published and became a bestseller of the New York Times.

　　Ginsberg also appeared on the cover of "Time" as "the 100 most influential people in the world" in 2015, and was also selected into the "Forbes" list of strong women in the world.

(Finish)