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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies, setting up nomination fight
Sep 18, 2020 1 min, 29 secs

Virtually nothing motivates liberals and conservatives in America's culture wars more than a Supreme Court vacancy, particularly in an election year.

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader GInsburg has died at age 87.

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday, giving President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans a rare opportunity to solidify conservative control of the court, perhaps for decades to come.

The diminutive New York native leaves behind an enormous influence on the law as the nation’s preeminent litigator for women’s rights, a federal appeals court judge, a Supreme Court justice for 27 years and, most recently, as the leader of the high court’s liberal bloc, where she served as a bulwark against an increasingly conservative majority.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she's amazed people want to take pictures with her.

We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague," Chief Justice John Roberts said.

"Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her  a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”.

20, giving them a chance to gain a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.

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Virtually nothing motivates both sides in America's culture wars more than a Supreme Court vacancy.

One that occurs in a presidential election year and gives a conservative president a chance to replace a liberal justice is even more fraught.

Democrats and liberal advocacy groups cried foul at the confirmation of conservative Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch early in 2017.

21, 2019, file photo Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg listens to speakers during the inaugural Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture at the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. (Photo: Jeff Chiu, AP)

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