Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

FILE: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits onstage as a speaker during an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York, Dec. 15, 2018 | Photo courtesy of the Associated Press, St. George News

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a longtime member of the United States Supreme Court, has died at the age of 87, the Supreme Court confirmed in a statement.

Ginsburg has been a justice on the nation’s highest court since being appointed by President Bill Clinton. She was just the second woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”

Ginsburg has been in and out of the hospital for the last several months as she battled metastatic pancreas cancer.

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Written by JUSTIN BOGGS, Fox13Now.com

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