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Washington (AFP) - Too woke? The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has triggered a debate by altering a quote about abortion by the late US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, replacing references to women with gender neutral words. In a tweet on Saturday to mark a year since Ginsburg's death, the powerful civil rights group noted that the liberal and feminist icon popularly known as "RBG" was a "champion for abortion and gender equality." The ACLU tweet was accompanied by a quote from Ginsburg: "The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person's] life, to [their]...
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Washington (AFP) - The late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday morning in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, officials said.The death of Ginsburg, a progressive icon affectionately known by her initials RBG, has triggered a partisan battle to fill her vacancy just weeks before the presidential election.Ginsburg, who died on September 18 at the age of 87, "was laid to rest this morning in a private family ceremony," the Arlington National Cemetery said.Slain US president John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington, as well as military pers...
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Washington (AFP) - Mourners flocked to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to pay their respects to late liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose death has opened a crucial seat on the nine-member bench that Donald Trump has vowed to fill before the November election. Colleagues of Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, as well as former president Bill Clinton honored the diminutive trailblazer, who became a pop culture icon late in life and a hero for American women.But her death has been in some ways eclipsed by its political implications as Trump has pledged to quickly fill her seat, setti...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would nominate a woman to succeed late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The president's desire to "to move quickly" on the process, despite Democrats' vehement opposition, is likely to dominate the campaigns -- alongside other hot-button issues such as the coronavirus and America's ongoing racial reckoning -- ahead of the November 3 election."I think it's going to move quickly actually," Trump told reporters outside the White House Saturday, adding that he thought his choice would be made "next week."Addressing a rally i...
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Washington (AFP) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was small in stature, but her influence was enormous -- both as a champion of women's rights early in her career and as a progressive force on the US Supreme Court.Ginsburg, only the second woman to serve as a justice on America's highest court, died Friday at the age of 87, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The Brooklyn native, sporting her signature embellished collars or frilly jabots, was the doyenne of the court, and the de facto leader of the left-leaning coalition on a court with a conservative majority.She did not hesitate to speak her m...
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