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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg applauds after a performance in her honor after she spoke about her life and work during a discussion at Georgetown Law School in Washington in April 2018.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsnominate, and the Republican-led Senate and became something of a rock star to her burg, a diminutive yet towering women’s should confirm, her replacement, or if the seat admirers. Young women especially seemed rights champion who became the court’s should remain vacant until the outcome of his to embrace the court’s Jewish grandmother, second female justice, died Sept. 18 at her race against Democrat Joe Biden is known. affectionately calling her the Notorious RBG, home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg Ginsburg announced in July that she was for her defense of the rights of women and died of complications from metastatic pancreundergoing chemotherapy treatment for minorities, and the strength and resilience atic cancer, the court said. lesions on her liver, the latest of her several she displayed in the face of personal loss and
Ginsberg’s death just over six weeks before battles with cancer. health crises. Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle She spent her final years on the bench as the She resisted calls by liberals to retire during over whether President Donald Trump should unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing Barack Obama’s presidency at a time when
Democrats held the Senate and a replacement with similar views could have been confirmed. Instead, Trump will almost certainly try to push Ginsburg’s successor through the Republican-controlled Senate — and move the conservative court even more to the right.
Her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993 was the first by a Democrat in 26 years. She initially found a comfortable ideological home somewhere left of center on a conservative court dominated by Republican appointees. Her liberal voice grew stronger the longer she served.
Ginsburg authored powerful dissents of her own in cases involving abortion, voting rights and pay discrimination against women. She said some were aimed at swaying the opinions of her fellow judges while others were “an appeal to the intelligence of another day” in the hopes that they would provide guidance to future courts.
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.”
Joan Ruth Bader was a mother of two, an opera lover and an intellectual. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, she was the second daughter in a middle-class family. Ginsburg graduated at the top of her Columbia University law school class in 1959 but could not find a law firm willing to hire her. She had “three strikes against her” — for being Jewish, female and a mother, as she put it in 2007.
She married her husband, Martin, in 1954, the year she graduated from Cornell University. She attended Harvard University’s law school but transferred to Columbia when her husband took a law job there. Martin Ginsburg died in 2010. She is survived by two children, Jane and James, and several grandchildren. – The Associated Press
C hancellorannounces plans for spring semester
Spring classes will be “mostly online,” according to a districtwide email from Dallas College Chancellor Joe May on Sept. 19. The exception are select specialized courses, which will still take place in-person. Those attending on-campus classes next semester can expect COVID-19 safety measures to continue, including self-reported health checks, deep cleaning of all facilities and adherence to social distancing.
said Dallas College Chancellor Joe May.
The spring class schedule will ultimately affect ISD schools and their students.
dual-credit courses, P-TECHs and Early College High Schools.
This decision will affect the nearing
80,000 students attending Dallas College, in addition to ISD partner schools that allow high school students to attend on-campus classes.
The Richland campus remains closed
to the public. Current and prospec- tive students can meet with Student Services representatives by appointment. The libraries, select computer labs and in-person tutoring services are also avail- able by appointment, Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk-ins are currently not permitted.
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