In Memoriam Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933 – 2020

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LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn

To say I am heartbroken over the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not enough. Justice Ginsburg was a brilliant legal mind and an extraordinary champion for women. She gave us everything she could and her death is devastating. May she rest in peace.

Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (44th Dist.)

What a devastating loss to our nation. An inspiration and role model to me and so many others, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a fighter for women. She fought fiercely for everyone. We can never thank her enough for her service to our nation. She will be so missed.

We must fight hard to preserve the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazer for gender equality and fighter for voting rights.

Rep. Ted W. Lieu (33rd Dist.)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg represented the best of America. With patriotism and passion, she never shied away from taking on the challenge of making our country a more just and equal place. As a civil rights icon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg carved out a new path for women in our country — demonstrating that everyone is entitled to justice and opportunity under the law. She was a legal pioneer that our country needed and she will be desperately missed. This is a devastating loss for our country but her memory, and her legacy, are a blessing.

Rep. Alan Lowenthal (47th Dist.)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than an icon, or a tenacious champion of women’s rights — she was in every sense of the phrase an American hero.

It is simply too hard to grasp the loss our nation has suffered. Her life and her legacy have inspired generations of Americans. And on her passing, we must rededicate ourselves to fighting for those ideals she believed in and fought for —the rights and protections of the person less well off, the outsider, the marginalized.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti 

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant: a trailblazer in our legal system, a titan of fairness in the workplace, a champion of equality in our society, and a keeper of American ideals. Perhaps more remarkable than all the acclaim for her judicial rulings was the way young girls and women could see themselves, their hopes, their possibilities and their rights embodied in the figure of this indomitable force for justice.

What made her an icon was her empathy. What made her a hero was her fierce understanding of how judicial decisions connect to people’s daily lives — and her unflinching belief in our Constitution as a living and breathing document, a sacred trust meant to be interpreted, refined, and strengthened by each generation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg knew our country could always be better. But our union is surely more perfect because of her service and her judgment. May her memory be a blessing.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom 

Justice Ginsburg devoted her extraordinary life and intellect to making the words of our nation’s founding documents more true. Throughout her historic legal career, her contributions as a jurist to the cause of equality for women and men were unmatched. Justice Ginsburg fought tirelessly for the rights of women at work, at school and in the life of our nation. She proved over and over again that sex-based discrimination harmed not just women, but men and families, and that reckoning with this inequality was required for our nation to live out its promise.

In moving our nation forward, she inspired millions among us, including so many women and girls, to reach higher, dream bigger and dissent more passionately. Though this loss is incalculable, her legacy will live on in the fairer, more just society that she bravely ushered in and that we must, to honor her, safeguard. Our thoughts and prayers are with her colleagues, her family and all Americans in mourning.

Sen. Bernie Sanders 

First and foremost, the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a tremendous loss for our country. She was an extraordinary champion of equal rights and will be remembered as one of the great justices in modern American history.

That said, the right thing to do here is obvious, and that is to wait for whoever wins the presidential election to appoint the next Supreme Court justice.

Diane Middleton

President, Harry Bridges Institute

Although Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her career as an ACLU attorney  fighting for women’s rights, she was a symbol of  fairness and enforcement of the rule of law  for all workers.  In her final years she became the embodiment of perseverance and strength soldiering on for years in the face of cancer and multiple medical problems.  She was the fighting force in dissent of the hypocrisy and bias  demonstrated by the Donald Trump administration and appointees at every level.  RBG did not go quietly into the night.  We must follow her example and continue to RESIST and DISSENT !

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