Yet again, time has struck an irreconcilable end to the mortal life of an unrelenting trailblazer and brave women champion of gender equality and protector of gender discrimination in the United States of America.
In the demise of the most illustrious liberal women Supreme Court Justice of the U.S.A., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (87),on 18th September,2020, the women of the world and particularly those of the U.S.A have lost a real crusader who stoutly stood for the spectrum of women's rights throughout her two score plus seven years of innings in the highest court of the country ever since she was appointed to the apex court in August 1993 by the then President Bill Clinton.
Happily married to Martin D. Ginsburg (1954-2010) and blessed with children, she was a true liberal and that brought her at ease to find it comfortable for herself to be on the side of the supporters of the same sex marriages, still a controversy in many cultures and countries. Her physical height (5'1") may be considered (often mentioned, uncharitably)far less in American Standards but she rose as a peerless colossus in the thickly male dominated world of lawyers and judges in America and she is now regarded as "a jurist of historic stature."
Prior to occupying the dais of the court, she battled valiantly in half a dozen landmark cases before the Supreme Court and won all but one. These cases pertain to a gamut of issues relating to fair treatment of women and men.
As a judge, she became noted for her scathing dissenting opinions penned for several judgments delivered during the period spanning a quarter century and little more of her tenure in the court and this earned her a nick name too ('Notorious R.B.G.').
Looking back, it has now turned out to be an irony that the one who was rejected in 1960 because she was a women (by the then Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter) for a clerkship with the Justice, has clawed her way to become the second-ever women justice (in the top court of the U.S.A. ,after former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) and is currently regarded as a " jurist of historic stature."
It is certainly impossible for any one involved with and working in the rights domain, to forget the the name and contributions of the equal rights crusader, Justice Ginsburg.
Our humble homage here to the departed brave.
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