{"id":5099,"date":"2020-09-22T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2020-09-22T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:17:04","slug":"r-i-p-r-b-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/r-i-p-r-b-g\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P.-R.B.G."},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 87. The Supreme Court may not be the same for decades to come! Anyone that says nothing has changed in the last fifty years, only has to look at Ginsburg’s history as an academic, creating and working for ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and finally on the Supreme Court to see that progress was made by this extraordinary person.<\/p>\n

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More recently, Ginsburg gained status as a “pop culture icon”. Ginsburg’s profile began to rise after O’Connor’s retirement in 2006 left Ginsburg as the only serving female justice. Her increasingly fiery dissents, led to the creation of “The Notorious R.B.G.”, an internet meme on Tumblr comparing her to rapper The Notorious B.I.G., created by law student Shana Knizhnik. Knizhnik later turned the blog into a book titled Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/em>. Ginsburg told Nina Totenberg in a 2014 interview, she had a “large supply” of Notorious R.B.G. t-shirts, which she gives as gifts.<\/p>\n

If you need a role model, you can find few better that Ruth Bader Ginsburg!\u00a0 It is up to us to carry on her legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 87. The Supreme Court may not be the same for decades to come! Anyone that says nothing has changed in the … Continue reading “R.I.P.-R.B.G.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,106],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","category-history","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}