What did ruth bader ginsburg do for the lgbtq community
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the justice with the most pro-LGBT voting record in the history of the court, died Friday following a long struggle with cancer.
As hundreds of people gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., Friday night, two huge rainbow flags were at the center of the crowd, a symbol of how important Ginsburg’s 27 years of work on the high court had supported the rights of LGBT people.
Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, who successfully argued the landmark Title VII case before Ginsburg and the court last October, said “it was in no small part due to attorney and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s efforts to combat sex-based stereotypes—and as she wrote in the VMI case, to show that the law ‘must not rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females’—that LGBT people could win that case today.”
“While Justice [Anthony] Kennedy authored the most essential LGBT rights decisions, Justice Ginsburg was the most important voice for LGBT people on the Court,” said Shannon Minter, legal director for the Natio
Human Rights Campaign Remembers U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Today, the Human Rights Campaign responded to the tragic news that United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away at the age of 87.
Today, we lost an unqualified, undisputed hero. She wasn’t just an iconic jurist, Justice Ginsburg was a force for good -- a force for bringing this country closer to delivering on its assure of equality for all. Her decades of function helped create many of the foundational arguments for gender equality in the United States, and her decisions from the bench demonstrated her committment to full LGBTQ equality. She was and will persist an inspiration to new people everywhere, a pop culture icon as the Notorious RBG and a giant in the combat for a more just nation for all. We extend our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. What she represented — fairness, justice and equality for all — we must all continue to fight for. Those principles are not transactional, they are fundamental to our democracy.
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Like Justice Ginsburg, as Legal Director of Gender Justice, I am warm about pursuing gender equity through the law.
Justice Ginsburg understood that our laws – our constitution, statutes, and court opinions – are not handed down from on upper. These laws are written and interpreted by people in positions of dominance. They reflect their views, biases, and stereotypes – and often also mirror their commitment to maintaining that power.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as a lawyer and a judge, regularly named this. As a lawyer, she challenged laws that presumed women were less suited than men to handle finances. She challenged laws that kept women out of jury pools because it was presumed that all women would be house caring for children, which was supposedly more important than their civic participation. And as a judge, in a majority opinion she wrote in a case regarding the Virginia Military Institute’s ban on women cadets, she mentioned a case out of Hennepin County Minnesota – in 1876 Martha Angle Dorsett was denied admission to the bar as an attorney by the Hennepin County Minnesota court of shared pleas. In d
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A being devoted to the struggle for legal equality
Yesterday we lost one of the most fervent defenders of legal equality. A female who recognized the influence of the law in shaping every aspect of American society, and who dedicated her life to ensuring this power was used to defend and uplift the voices of the historically marginalized.
It is difficult to think of a single individual who has done more to advance legal equality for women in the Merged States than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her brilliant legal mind and unwavering tenacity to occupy spaces of power typically reserved for wealthy white men possess changed the course of history for generations of women and girls. Not only did she serve build, protect, and advance America’s most fundamental principles of equality, but she has shown women and girls that they pertain everywhere. Including the Supreme Court of the Together States of America.
When reflecting on RBG’s legacy, I thought of countless examples of how she changed the course of contemporary American history. From protecting access to safe and legal abortion to defending the rights of LGBTQ people to live with dignity and equality, the list kept growing! As she
Gay Couple Married By Ruth Bader Ginsburg Recalls Their Extraordinary Wedding Day
NEW YORK - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a lifelong trailblazer, most famously as a woman but also as an advocate for Gay rights. She played a role in legalizing gay marriage in 2015, though her work toward equality also included personal, private moments.
As the first Supreme Court member to perform same sex marriage ceremonies, Justice Ginsburg helped many men and women break barriers — and form their families.
She began officiating gay marriages just a few months after she unified a landmark Supreme Court decision that made the federal government recognize lgbtq+ marriages in June 2013.
One of the first weddings she officiated was for Ralph Pellecchio and Dr. James Carter Wernz. The Manhattan couple was together for more than 30 years before tying the knot on October 26, 2013. They utter they were the first gay couple to get married at the Supreme Court.
“I grew up in a very small town in Eastern Washington Articulate with 365 people, very closeted when I was younger, of course. And to realize, there I was with my family in the Chambers of the United States Supreme court in front of Justice Ginsburg, i