"A Rock of Righteousness; and My Good, Good Friend": SCOTUS Eulogizes Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[babylonsister]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/a-rock-of-righteousness-and-my-good-good-friend-scotus-eulogizes-ruth-bader-ginsburg/


“A Rock of Righteousness; and My Good, Good Friend”: SCOTUS Eulogizes Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Read their lovely tributes to their longtime colleague and friend.
Madison Pauley


Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a feminist icon, a tireless jurist, and a fearsome dissenter holding down the court’s liberal wing. But for the other members of the country’s highest court, where Ginsburg spent 27 years, she was also a colleague and, to some, a treasured friend. On Saturday, the Court released statements from its eight remaining members and former Justice Anthony Kennedy, reacting to Ginsburg’s death at age 87 from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Their tributes included the following memorials. You can read all the Justices’ statements here.
https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/09.19.20-Press-Release-Statements-of-the-Supreme-Court-Regarding-the-Death-of-Associate-Justice-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-004.pdf

snip//

And in its few poetic words, Stephen Breyer’s stirring tribute was unforgettable in its own way.

I heard of Ruth’s death while I was reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish at the Rosh Hashanah service. I thought:

a great Justice;

a woman of valour;

a rock of righteousness;

and my good, good friend.

The world is a better place for her having lived in it.

And so is her family;

her friends;

the legal community;

and the nation.