This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court and a legal pioneer for gender equality whose fierce opinions as a justice made her a hero to the left, died Sept. 18 at her home in Washington. She was 87.The death was announced in a statement by the U.S. Supreme Court. She had recently been treated for pancreatic cancer.Born in Depression-era Brooklyn, Justice Ginsburg excelled academically and went to the top of her law school class at a time when women were still called upon to justify...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court and a legal pioneer for gender equality whose fierce opinions as a justice made her a hero to the left, died Sept. 18 at her home in Washington. She was 87.The death was announced in a statement by the U.S. Supreme Court. She had recently been treated for pancreatic cancer.Born in Depression-era Brooklyn, Justice Ginsburg excelled academically and went to the top of her law school class at a time when women were still called upon to justify...WW…