Ginsburg also was treated with radiation for a tumor on her pancreas in August 2019. Following the last surgery, she missed court sessions for the first time in more than 25 years on the bench. She had surgery again in 2009 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and in December 2018 for cancerous growths on her left lung. In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colon cancer and received radiation and chemotherapy. The “alarming” ruling, Ginsburg said, “cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court - and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women’s lives.” The court, with O’Connor still on it, had struck down a similar state ban seven years earlier.
She dissented forcefully from the court’s decision in 2007 to uphold a nationwide ban on an abortion procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion. She wrote memorably in 2013 that the court’s decision to cut out a key part of the federal law that had ensured the voting rights of Black people, Hispanics and other minorities was “like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”Ĭhange on the court hit Ginsburg especially hard. “Hope springs eternal,” she said in 2007, “and when I am writing a dissent, I’m always hoping for that fifth or sixth vote - even though I’m disappointed more often than not.” The division remained the same after John Roberts replaced Rehnquist as chief justice, Samuel Alito took O’Connor’s seat, and, under Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court, in seats that had been held by Scalia and Kennedy, respectively. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Gore decision in 2000, she was often at odds with the court’s more conservative members - initially Chief Justice William H. In the most divisive of cases, including the Bush v. In addition, she questioned the quality of lawyers for poor accused murderers. During her tenure, the court declared it unconstitutional for states to execute the intellectually disabled and killers younger than 18. On the court, where she was known as a facile writer, her most significant majority opinions were the 1996 ruling that ordered the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding, and the 2015 decision that upheld independent commissions some states use to draw congressional districts.īesides civil rights, Ginsburg took an interest in capital punishment, voting repeatedly to limit its use.
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