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handle is hein.crs/govdbxn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Resarh Service The Death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Initial Considerations for Congress September 21, 2020 On September 18, 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, passed away at the age of eighty-seven, vacating a seat on the High Court that she had held for twenty-seven years. Nominated to replace Justice Byron White in 1993, Justice Ginsburg already had a trailblazing career as a law school professor; Supreme Court litigator; co-founder of the .American Civil Liberties U-nion's Women's Rights Project; and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) for thirteen years. Several of her opinions have been consequential, including her 1996 majority opinion in United States v. J'irginia, holding that women could not be denied admission to the Virginia Military Institute on the basis of their sex. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in a recent statement that no Americ an has ever done more than Justice Ginsburg to ensure equaljustic e under law for women. Justice Ginsburg was also noted for her pointed dissents, including in Shelby Countny v. Holder (2013), where the Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Ledbetter v. Goodvear Thr & Rubber Go. (2007), where the Court rejected a Title VII employment discrimination claim. In more recent years, Justice Ginsburg gained recognition in popular culture, becoming known by the moniker the notorious RBG. She was the subject of books, movies, and an opera, and in 2015, was named one of Time magazine's one hundred most influential people. But popular characterizations of Justice Ginsburg as a liberal firebrand, frequently at odds with the Court's conservative wing, may paint an incomplete picture of the Justice's tenure on the Court. According to one study, Justice Ginsburg authored more majority opinions than any other Justice on the bench during the same period as her. And despite attention garnered by her dissents, Justice Ginsburg authored fewer dissents than Justices Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, and Clarence Thomas during that time. Justice Ginsburg's majority opinions, moreover, rarely involved closely divided disputes on hot-button social and political topics. Instead, these (frequently unanimous) opinions addressed more esoteric issues like securities law (e.g., ie/lahs, Jm,. v. Makor Jss.-ues & Right5, Ltd (2007)), criminal sentencing procedures (e.g., Ring v Arizona (2002)), and various complex civil procedure issues (e.g., Goodyear Dunlop 77res Operations, S.A. v. Biown (2011); Exxon Mobil Cop. v. Saudi Basicindustrics Corp. (2005); Porter v. Nussle (2002); New Jlanwshia v. Maine (2001); A mchem Products, inco v. Wndsor (1997)). Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10537 CRS Legat Siebar Preipa red M. -embersand C o m m ; .. e e s o f Cen o loC o ---------------.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...........

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