Ginsburg died at 87 years old on September 18, 2020, having spent some 40 years as a federal judge – 27 on the high court. Lara Bazelon, a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, put it more forcefully in an interview with CNN: “The current court is taking a wrecking ball to her legacy to smash it to smithereens.”
Siegel, a professor at Duke University and former Ginsburg clerk.
“We are in the midst of a constitutional revolution, and the praise being lavished on Ruth Bader Ginsburg today, should not cause us to lose sight of that fact,” said Neil S. Even the relationships between the justices, while cordial, have frayed in public over debates concerning the court’s legitimacy.Īs conservatives praise the court’s new season, others mourn the dismantling of Ginsburg’s life work. In the past few months, the court has seen its approval ratings plummet amid claims that it has become irreparably political. In addition, however, the current conservative majority, including Ginsburg’s replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is working expeditiously to reverse much of what Ginsburg stood for in areas such as reproductive health, voting rights, affirmative action, administrative law and religious liberty. Wade, a disclosure the court described as a “grave assault on the judicial process.” That's not the caseįresh on the minds of many is the unprecedented leak last May of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Kavanaugh and Alito said judges would be out of the abortion equation.
(Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images) Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 23: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021.
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