Jamie Smith – who describes herself as a 40-something “attorney and mother who cares about civil rights” – wrote for HuffPost Personal that last week’s death of the 87-year-old liberal judge drove her to join the Satanic Temple, not out of grief but out of fear. “I fear that American …
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“Don’t vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances that President Trump and Senator [Mitch] McConnell have created,” Biden said Sunday in his first major speech since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday. “The last thing we need is to add a constitutional crisis that plunges us deeper into …
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Throughout her life, Bader Ginsburg (aka, the Notorious RBG) was the embodiment of how the rule of law, manifested through the vehicle of the Constitution of the United States, could (and should) serve the interests of the American people by ensuring that the playing field that is American society was …
Read More »US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
The second-ever woman to be nominated to the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg championed liberal causes and feminist issues throughout her legal career. She also battled cancer on and off since 1999, most recently undergoing therapy for a tumor on her pancreas in August. Ginsburg’s health issues prompted some activists to …
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