She was surrounded by her family at her home in Washington DC when she died from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the public information office of the Supreme Court confirmed.
After a decades-long career fighting for gender equality, Ginsburg was appointed to the court by Bill Clinton in 1993. She was just the second woman to hold a position on ‘the highest court in the land’. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic structure,” the US chief justice John G Roberts, Jr said today.
Her death, leaving a seat vacant on the bench, will become a central issue to the US presidential election in 45 days.
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