Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead. What’s going to happen? Summary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last night at age 87, after a long battle with cancer. Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court for 27 years after an extensive legal career as a judge, where she made many watershed rulings that advanced women’s rights. Now that there is a vacancy on the court, the president is eligible to nominate a replacement appointee. Before her passing, RBG stated that her “most fervent …
