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"content": "\u003cp>On April 18, San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/15/san-leandro-police-officer-charged-with-steven-taylors-death-appears-in-court/\">shot and killed\u003c/a> 33-year-old Steven Taylor, who was carrying a baseball bat around a local Walmart. The lawyer for Taylor's family says he lived with schizophrenia and bipolar depression and was mentally unwell the day he died. Taylor’s encounter with police lasted 40 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As nationwide debate grows over racial bias in cases of police violence, mental health advocates around the country are calling attention to police killings of people suffering from mental illnesses. \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/\">A report by the Washington Post\u003c/a>, which has been tracking police use of deadly force since 2015, found that at least 25% of people shot and killed by police displayed signs of mental illness. It also found that people who are experiencing mental illness or a disability are 16 times more likely to die during an encounter with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mental-health\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are in an altered mental state may interact with police differently, and many police departments \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/how-police-officers-are-or-aren-t-trained-in-mental-health/280485/\">do not provide sufficient training\u003c/a> on how to respectfully and safely interact with people in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, says police often escalate situations, as happened with Steven Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What should have happened is that officer Fletcher should have cleared the Walmart, and then he should have allowed Steven Taylor to run around with that bat as long as he wanted to run around with that bat, and they should have called in a mental health professional who knew how to talk to someone in Stevens’ condition,\" Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks and her APTP co-founder, Asantewaa Boykin, are advocating for community-based resources to help people who are experiencing altered mental states — regardless of whether that is caused by mental illness or substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mental Health First\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This summer, APTP launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-events/mh-first-062720\">Mental Health First Oakland\u003c/a>, a mobile crisis response unit that provides assistance and resources, and puts callers' needs first. Brooks says the program is based on a culture of solidarity and mutual aid that already exists in communities of color as a result of police brutality and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asantewaa Boykin, a Sacramento-based ER nurse and co-founder of APTP\"]'Our framework doesn’t swoop in and tell people what they need or how they need it, we call it self-determined crisis management.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's work that Black and brown and Indigenous people were already doing naturally in our communities because so many of us don’t call the police for anything ever,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotline is staffed on Friday and Saturday nights when other mental health services typically aren’t available. Volunteers are trained in non-punitive deescalation techniques based on consent. Boykin is a Sacramento-based ER nurse and has previously worked with psychiatric patients. She says the primary goal of Mental Health First is to mitigate the immediate crisis and help people decide their own next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our framework doesn’t swoop in and tell people what they need or how they need it, we call it self-determined crisis management. Things as simple as getting people from a place where they feel unsafe, to a place where they feel safe,\" Boykin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health First operates with the understanding that people in crisis often know what they need, but may not have the resources to access it. It is one of many community-based programs in place across the country that is seeking to transform public perception of mental illness and the mental health care system as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Searching for Solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ideas around mental health services centered around patient needs and consent are gaining momentum as the high-profile police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others burst into the national conversation this year, forcing organizations and public institutions to examine the ways many of our systems don’t serve and protect everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.idha-nyc.org/decarcerating-care\">panel discussion\u003c/a> hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.idha-nyc.org/who-is-idha\">Institute for the Development of Human Arts\u003c/a>, which provides training and resources for shifting policy and practice in mental health care, experts from all over the country shared strategies and successes around eliminating law enforcement from crisis care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asantewaa Boykin, a Sacramento-based ER nurse and co-founder of APTP\"]'Understand that these systems were built for white land-owning males, and what we’re gonna have to do is deconstruct them and rebuild them absent from the roots that are steeped in white supremacy.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional mental health treatment has historically been based on the idea that people experiencing mental illness are a danger to their communities and need to be restrained and controlled, the panelists discussed. Though patients do have rights within these frameworks, the ability to protect these rights may be diminished by the altered mental state the patient is experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One solution that has gained attention is the practice of integrating social workers into police work involving mental health care. Boykin rejects this solution, pointing out that the social workers involved are sometimes indistinguishable from police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These social worker models need to be divorced from police and policing,\" Boykin said, \"here in Sacramento we have a social worker that wears a police uniform that literally has the word social worker on the back. Someone who is not experiencing our shared reality can’t tell the difference between one person in a bulletproof vest and another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boykin said social work is inherently tied to law enforcement, and that deeper transformation is needed to rebuild trust with communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Understand that these systems were built for white land-owning males, and what we’re gonna have to do is deconstruct them and rebuild them absent from the roots that are steeped in white supremacy,\" Boykin said. 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Gong says defunding those institutions was co-opted by politicians during a period of fiscal crisis, and that when the money wasn’t reinvested in alternatives, city streets and jails began to be filled by people with psychiatric disabilities, which resulted in public backlash and calls to \"bring back the asylum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to prepare for problems with new systems we build, especially in a bad economy like this, and we have to have real answers if people do demand a return to harsh enforcement,\" Gong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems that people are looking for real answers and solutions: More than 4,000 people registered for the discussion via Zoom, and the recording of the panel has since been viewed thousands of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the city council has responded to calls to defund the police by passing a revised city \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2020/oaklands-mid-cycle-budget-cuts-14-3-million-from-police-budget-invests-additional-50-million-to-address-racial-disparities\">budget in June\u003c/a>, which allocates $1.85 million to create a Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO, which is intended to remove police from some 911 calls related to mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But APTP has criticized the program’s white leadership as out of touch, and said MACRO was developed without adequate community input. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers in Richmond who swapped sexually explicit text messages with a local teenager — and in some cases asked for pictures of her naked — got to keep their jobs, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disciplinary files released late Wednesday provide new insight into how the Richmond Police Department disciplined nine officers who were involved in the multi-agency sexual exploitation scandal that rocked Bay Area police departments four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the then-18-year-old going by the name Celeste Guap told Oakland Police Department internal affairs investigators that she had sex with 30 officers who worked for Bay Area agencies in exchange for protection from arrest. The allegations touched seven law enforcement agencies, including Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-800x133.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1020x169.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-160x27.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1536x255.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly disclosed text messages between Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver and Celeste Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former police chief Allwyn Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\">publicly promised\u003c/a> residents at the time that officers would be disciplined decisively for any “sustained allegations” involving the young Richmond woman “especially ones that carry harm to the public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records now show six of the nine men were given written reprimands and allowed to stay on the job. The city moved to fire three officers. An additional two officers resigned before facing discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver, Detective Dan Campos and Officer Joe Deorian. All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1911px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11840510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1911\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png 1911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-800x476.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver (L), Detective Dan Campos (C) and Officer Joe Deorian (R). All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Guap had named six other men who worked at the Richmond Police Department: Lt. Andre Hill, Sgt. Jerred Tong, Sgt. Terrance Jackson, Lt. Felix Tan, Mike Rood and Armando Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a yearlong legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736667/bay-area-ruling-could-fast-track-access-to-police-records-under-new-law\">battle\u003c/a>, the city of Richmond finally released disciplinary records for all of the officers to KQED and other news organizations as part of a settlement agreement stemming from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724434/contra-costa-county-judge-to-weigh-public-access-to-police-records\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a>, the “Right to Know” police transparency act that went into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newly released records out of Richmond show one of the highest ranking officers involved — Lt. Felix Tan, a 20-year veteran of the department — received a written reprimand for sexting. Tan became the public information officer for the Richmond Police Department after the scandal broke and Lt. Andre Hill was removed from the position. In 2019, Tan was voted crime prevention officer of the year, but has not received any promotions, according to another public information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap sent Tan a nude photo of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course I made some comments because I’m a guy,” Tan said. He also admitted to asking for more photos, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1087px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1087\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png 1087w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-800x152.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-1020x194.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-160x30.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1087px) 100vw, 1087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text messages between Celeste Guap and Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Investigators found that then-Sgt. Armando Moreno knew that Guap was a prostitute when he had sex with her off duty, and ran a name for her through a confidential police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno allegedly met Guap while patrolling an area known for sex trafficking and offered her a prostitution resource card. But later, in spring 2016, their relationship became sexual. Moreno also allegedly shared a police report with Guap about a sexual assault against one of her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson confirmed that Moreno is still with the Richmond Police Department but now holds a lower rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Rood was the head of the Regulatory Unit overseeing medical marijuana dispensaries, and held previous positions as homicide detective and patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials reprimanded Rood for sexting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood told investigators he was curious when Guap first reached out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never had anyone just message me and say I wanna f*k you in a hotel,” he said. “So yeah, I made a poor judgment, I should not have met with her, but I did because I wanted to make sure she understood that I was not interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood remained on the job, but at the lower rank of officer. 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Hill insisted he didn’t know she was soliciting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was just a special guy,” he told investigators. “I just thought that she maybe liked cops, maybe was a cop groupie, and wanted to just interact with me sexually.” In 2018, Hill appealed the city’s decision to terminate him in Contra Costa County Superior Court, but the judge sided with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Terrance Jackson told department internal affairs investigators that he recognized her as a former student at De Anza High where he worked as the school’s resource officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748275/richmond-officer-found-to-have-engaged-in-predatory-behavior-won-job-back-on-appeal-records-show\">moved to fire\u003c/a> Jackson for having sexual contact with Guap while on duty, and in uniform. Jackson appealed and was allowed to stay on with a dock in pay. In an email, the Richmond Police Department confirmed that Jackson has retired from the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerred Tong was fired for engaging in oral sex with Guap on two occasions, “while knowing she was a prostitute” and then lying about it during an internal investigation. Tong also ran a search for Guap on a police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Guap often initiated contact with the officers — friending them on Facebook. Officers and their attorneys have used this as evidence showing that Guap was the aggressor. Some officers said they accepted her request because they had many friends in common. 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Misconduct, whether on or off duty, is unacceptable, and we cannot behave in a way that erodes public trust and tarnishes our reputation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>French said that although she cannot change the disciplinary decisions of her predecessor, \"I am making sure that police department staff are clear about the swift consequences of improper behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is the first city to make a full disclosure of its internal records relating to the scandal that also implicated officers in the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, Livermore Police Department, Oakland Police Department, the San Francisco Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Oakland Police Department released a heavily redacted executive summary of findings related to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">just five officers\u003c/a> but have still not released the audio files or additional underlying records as required under SB 1421. The department is currently facing a lawsuit over its lax responsiveness to requestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other five agencies have either not responded to requests filed Jan 1, 2019 or have denied having any findings of sexual misconduct or lying by officers associated with the Guap case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a statement from Richmond Police Chief Bisa French.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers in Richmond who swapped sexually explicit text messages with a local teenager — and in some cases asked for pictures of her naked — got to keep their jobs, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disciplinary files released late Wednesday provide new insight into how the Richmond Police Department disciplined nine officers who were involved in the multi-agency sexual exploitation scandal that rocked Bay Area police departments four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the then-18-year-old going by the name Celeste Guap told Oakland Police Department internal affairs investigators that she had sex with 30 officers who worked for Bay Area agencies in exchange for protection from arrest. The allegations touched seven law enforcement agencies, including Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-800x133.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1020x169.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-160x27.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1536x255.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly disclosed text messages between Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver and Celeste Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former police chief Allwyn Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\">publicly promised\u003c/a> residents at the time that officers would be disciplined decisively for any “sustained allegations” involving the young Richmond woman “especially ones that carry harm to the public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records now show six of the nine men were given written reprimands and allowed to stay on the job. The city moved to fire three officers. An additional two officers resigned before facing discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver, Detective Dan Campos and Officer Joe Deorian. All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1911px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11840510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1911\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png 1911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-800x476.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver (L), Detective Dan Campos (C) and Officer Joe Deorian (R). All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Guap had named six other men who worked at the Richmond Police Department: Lt. Andre Hill, Sgt. Jerred Tong, Sgt. Terrance Jackson, Lt. Felix Tan, Mike Rood and Armando Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a yearlong legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736667/bay-area-ruling-could-fast-track-access-to-police-records-under-new-law\">battle\u003c/a>, the city of Richmond finally released disciplinary records for all of the officers to KQED and other news organizations as part of a settlement agreement stemming from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724434/contra-costa-county-judge-to-weigh-public-access-to-police-records\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a>, the “Right to Know” police transparency act that went into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newly released records out of Richmond show one of the highest ranking officers involved — Lt. Felix Tan, a 20-year veteran of the department — received a written reprimand for sexting. Tan became the public information officer for the Richmond Police Department after the scandal broke and Lt. Andre Hill was removed from the position. In 2019, Tan was voted crime prevention officer of the year, but has not received any promotions, according to another public information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap sent Tan a nude photo of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course I made some comments because I’m a guy,” Tan said. 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Detective Erik Oliver. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Investigators found that then-Sgt. Armando Moreno knew that Guap was a prostitute when he had sex with her off duty, and ran a name for her through a confidential police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno allegedly met Guap while patrolling an area known for sex trafficking and offered her a prostitution resource card. But later, in spring 2016, their relationship became sexual. Moreno also allegedly shared a police report with Guap about a sexual assault against one of her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson confirmed that Moreno is still with the Richmond Police Department but now holds a lower rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Rood was the head of the Regulatory Unit overseeing medical marijuana dispensaries, and held previous positions as homicide detective and patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials reprimanded Rood for sexting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood told investigators he was curious when Guap first reached out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never had anyone just message me and say I wanna f*k you in a hotel,” he said. “So yeah, I made a poor judgment, I should not have met with her, but I did because I wanted to make sure she understood that I was not interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood remained on the job, but at the lower rank of officer. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I don't know. But you certainly don't want to feed a narrative of the Democratic Party being controlled by people who are essentially too old to have the position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone on the party’s left flank is worried that Feinstein can’t handle the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Ro Khanna, who co-chaired Bernie Sanders’ national campaign, also supported Feinstein’s opponent in 2016 and said she’s wrong on the filibuster question. But he believes she performed well during the last, contentious Supreme Court confirmation fight over now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh two years ago — despite the fact that some Democrats are still angry that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/why-didnt-she-bring-it-up-feinstein-under-scrutiny-for-handling-of-allegations-against-kavanaugh/2018/09/18/0ace9e24-bb78-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html\">sat on sexual assault allegations against him for several weeks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she's up for it,” Khanna said. “She was a vocal opponent of Kavanaugh and helped lead the strategy. She understands what is at stake. And I have confidence that she will fight this effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='u-s-supreme-court']Feinstein’s office did not make her available for an interview, but the senator spoke Thursday in a Judiciary Committee hearing about what’s at stake. 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"content": "\u003cp>It often pays to have friends in high places. In San Francisco, that goes double for nonprofits that call themselves \"friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Auditing/Public%20Integrity%20Review%20-%20Non-City%20Organizations%2009.24.20.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the San Francisco City Controller's Office, in conjunction with the City Attorney's Office, skewers a system where city departments — like Public Works — form relationships with nonprofit organizations that raise philanthropic dollars for issues related to that department, saying it's rife with opportunity for corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often these organizations are called \"friends\" organizations, like Friends of the Library, or Friends of City Planning. All told, the report found that 33 out of 56 San Francisco city departments benefit from these kinds of nonprofit organizations, which between them have 588 accounts spent on city activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dennis Herrera, San Francisco city attorney\"]'This report makes it clear that pay-to-play has been happening in our city.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those nonprofits have looser transparency requirements, creating a \"pay-to-play\" environment where city department heads could potentially ask city contractors they oversee to donate to the nonprofit, creating a risk that department head would be influenced by that spending when deciding to award multi-million-dollar city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit could then disburse those funds to be used for city staff appreciation parties in ways that would have otherwise violated city law — if done transparently — or on pet projects of that department head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may have already happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Controller's Office found at least one of these organizations, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, took roughly $1 million in donations from a number of city contractors which were under investigation by the City Attorney's Office for funneling money to the Public Works department for lavish parties, at the behest of former Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mohammed-nuru/\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, who was arrested by the FBI in January on corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those city contractors include the SF Clean City Coalition, Recology, PG&E, Clark Construction, Webcor Construction and Pankow Construction. They collectively donated $966,000 to the Parks Alliance into a Public Works-specific account — funds Nuru was able to freely direct, and sometimes himself was paid from — according to the report. Those same contractors were awarded more than $570 million in city contracts by the Public Works Department, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dennis Herrera \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2020/02/12/city-attorney-subpoenas-8-organizations-in-widening-public-corruption-investigation/\">issued subpoenas\u003c/a> investigating those same city contractors in February, in connection with the ongoing corruption scandal that first ensnared Nuru, but has only grown in the following months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru and others would direct staff to pay for goods and services for staff appreciation, volunteer programs, merchandise, community support and events from specific vendors, \"circumventing city purchasing controls,\" the report found. These purchases would then be reimbursed through Public Works accounts held by the Parks Alliance \"outside of city purchasing rules.\" Nuru would solicit those funds from contractors whose city contracts Nuru oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This report makes it clear that pay-to-play has been happening in our city. We are putting a stop to it,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said, in a statement. “City officials cannot work behind the scenes with City contractors to benefit their departments and use other entities to cloak those efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew Becher, CEO of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, expressed shock at the city's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like everyone, we were outraged to learn of the public corruption in our local government,” Becher said, in a statement. “We did not benefit in any way nor had any control over the donations that Nuru and Public Works solicited and directed to the sub-account, as the report states. We are a trusted partner to many community groups and city departments and welcome any and all actions that bring more transparency and oversight to ensure the public’s trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru was arrested by the FBI in January and accused of attempting to bribe an airport official. Just last week, two city contractors pleaded guilty to bribing Nuru with the construction of his vacation home and a $36,000 gold Rolex watch in exchange for help in obtaining city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='mohammed-nuru']At the behest of Nuru, the Parks Alliance also directed $66,000 to entities whose figureheads were also arrested by the FBI in connection with Nuru's corruption scandal, permit expediter Walter Wong and Nick Bovis, the owner of Lefty O'Doul's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they're working as they're supposed to, these \"friends of\" organizations may help put on an outdoor movie night for the public or help build park trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're also rife with opportunity for abuse, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While philanthropic organizations provide tangible benefits to all of our residents, abuses in these relationships undermine the important role they play,\" said Controller Ben Rosenfield, in a statement. \"When gifts are solicited from those that do business with the City, it creates a risk to fair and transparent public processes. We have put forward actionable recommendations to correct loopholes that seemingly normalize unethical practices that undermine faith in public actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the release of the report, Mayor London Breed announced an executive order to address the recommendations in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City department heads will now be required to reveal when they solicit donations to nonprofits — like the \"friends of\" organizations — and for city departments to formalize their relationships with these nonprofits, which would legally require those groups to boast greater transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed's order also requires more transparency from city officers in accepting gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney also plans to introduce legislation next week that will go further than the mayor's order, explicitly banning department heads from asking any person or party doing business with their department for donations, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney called Public Works actions \"inappropriate behavior\" and said the department \"is clearly out of control.\" Haney argued this also showed a clear need for his ballot measure Proposition B in San Francisco, which would create an oversight body for Public Works, and place some of its street maintenance duties with a new Department of Sanitation and Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's corruption scandal investigation is ongoing. 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"content": "\u003cp>A lab analyst for the San Francisco medical examiner's office had driven more than 700 miles east toting a sealed bag of drug evidence before he was pulled over for speeding in Washington County, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Aug. 31 traffic stop, sheriff’s deputies discovered a bag containing “a large crystal looking item,” along with other baggies with suspected crystal meth and white powder.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Former employee of the San Francisco medical examiner's office\"]‘Mr. Volk is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to poor management and bad forensic policy. He is a reflection of the unregulated, and unmonitored management at the office.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies also found suspected meth pipes and 14 unidentified pills elsewhere in the car. There was also paperwork from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The analyst, Justin Volk, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for possession and intent to distribute drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former employees of the San Francisco medical examiner said the apparent theft of drug evidence should have been prevented by the office’s own protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those procedures, however, were not followed in recent years, according to two former employees who worked with Volk. Each one spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity because they feared that speaking out could lead to reprisal in their current jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former colleagues who worked at the toxicology lab until recently said the lab’s supervisors allowed illicit drugs to pile up in the evidence room, let protocols lapse designed to prevent evidence mishandling and ignored Volk’s increasingly erratic behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Volk is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to poor management and bad forensic policy,” one former employee said. “He is a reflection of the unregulated and unmonitored management at the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk is on administrative leave and under investigation, according to the city administrator’s office, which oversees the medical examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Failure to Secure and Destroy Illicit Drugs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When a person dies in a sudden, violent or unexpected way, investigators for the medical examiner’s office often collect and store any drugs found at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security for that kind of evidence is crucial, according to Dr. Nikolas Lemos, the former chief toxicologist for the office, who established rules when he was hired in 2003 on how to treat drug evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually implemented very strict protocols for the medical examiner's investigators to account for every pill, every syringe, every crystal they brought into the office,” Lemos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11820340,news_11670624,news_11638866\" label=\"More on Death Investigations From Julie Small\" target=\"_blank\"]Investigators were supposed to create an inventory of the drugs, seal them into ziplock bags and drop them into a secure slot that could only be opened by technicians in the toxicology lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Lemos’ tenure, two lab employees had to be present to retrieve the drugs from the locker, and they were supervised in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always present when junior staff were removing medications and pills,” Lemos said. “I was pretty much like a hawk because I knew that the temptation is great. And the fact is that without supervision, you could just mishandle the evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protocols also included boxing up the evidence and in most cases setting a date for destruction after a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this took place in the lab, in plain sight of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemos said the protocols were designed to prevent even well-trusted staff members from having access to drug evidence without supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot imagine a worse situation than when you are about to destroy medications or pills or drugs, you let somebody into the vault by themselves and they just take whatever they want,” Lemos said. “The supervisor and the chief toxicologist both should be there, taking turns, hands-on supervising this process from start to end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemos resigned in 2016, alleging that he had been been pressured by supervisors to engage in “unlawful practices” at the office. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news/news//266275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reached a $100,000 settlement\u003c/a> with San Francisco in 2018 for wrongful termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one source, the office abandoned many of Lemos’ protocols after he left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Erratic Attendance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Former colleagues said that Volk’s immediate supervisors, Dr. Luke Rodda and Sue Pearring, had received a number of complaints about the lab technician’s behavior over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whistleblower complaints about specific incidents of lax oversight at the lab, such as the illegal transport of drug evidence in 2017, had also been filed with the city controller, according to a former employee, but no disciplinary action was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED sent a list of the former employees' specific allegations to the city administrator's office, the city's chief medical examiner, the city controller and Rodda and Pearring. None commented on those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city administrator deferred questions about the toxicology lab’s protocols for drug disposal to the city controller, which launched a review of drug evidence procedures after Volk’s arrest. The controller is expected to make the findings of that review publicly available in mid-October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical examiner’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7213861-San-Francisco-Office-of-the-Chief-Medical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protocols\u003c/a> require that two staff members log and sort drug evidence. After a year, that evidence should be “sorted and sent for disposal” by a pair of employees with different job classifications.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\"]Despite repeated complaints to management about how Volk was forcing other employees to pick up the slack, his erratic behavior appeared to former employees to go unpunished.[/pullquote]Volk worked at the lab for 13 years, and during most of that time carried his own workload and got along well with his colleagues, two former co-workers said. But three years ago, his behavior began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources close to Volk, including someone who helped train him, said that he was chronically tardy, arriving to work hours late on multiple days of the week, and that he would disappear for hours in the middle of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite repeated complaints to management about how Volk was forcing other employees to pick up the slack, his erratic behavior appeared to former employees to go unpunished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk was at one point required to clock in for his shifts, but that “did not change the behavior,” the former employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees were not aware of any other actions taken by supervisors to address problems with Volk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Access to Drug Evidence Without Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Volk was “highly favored,” according to former co-workers, who said supervisors allowed him to work alone in the toxicology lab outside of normal work hours, including on weekends. Other lab employees were told they had to get approval in advance to do that and could not enter the lab alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One section of the toxicology lab contains cubicles and offices. Toxicologists perform tests in another section, and a third, glass-enclosed room holds evidence, including illicit drugs. The evidence room is locked, according to former employees, but anyone with a badge to enter the lab can open it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the week, there are plenty of people around who might observe someone going into the evidence stacks,” one source said, “but on the weekend, a person could retrieve drugs from evidence without being detected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another source said that a security camera in the evidence room was not focused on the section where the drugs were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Backlog of Controlled Substances\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The scheduled destruction of drugs also fell by the wayside after Lemos’ departure, according to former staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pharmaceutical is actual evidence,” one former staff member said. “It wasn’t anything that was regularly tested by the lab, and ultimately just sat there and was an afterthought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab was moved to a new facility in 2017, and drugs that were no longer required to be stored were destroyed before the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last time any drug evidence was destroyed, according to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11838978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-1536x1042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco medical examiner's office has been under fire in recent years for a large backlog in death investigations and the loss of its accreditation. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's been three or four years since anything has been tossed out,” one former toxicologist said. “We shouldn't have a room piling up full of illicit drugs. We know that there's a lure to having that kind of stuff on hand and we just don't want to hold on to it any longer than we have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers said they repeatedly urged lab supervisors Rodda and Pearring to destroy the drug evidence that was years past the date required for storage. The task was “not a priority for the office,” they were told.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>High Turnover\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A number of high-ranking people within the medical examiner’s office have resigned in the last decade over complaints of mismanagement and poor standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, death investigations were lagging, and some families were waiting six months to a year for results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office lost its accreditation with the National Association of Medical Examiners in January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist, quit working for the office several years ago because, she says, the morale was low at the time and the credibility of the office had suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left, because I saw that it was going to impact not just my work product, but my reputation,” Melinek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued, “The repeated problems are management problems. At some point, we have to either have a grand jury inquiry or someone has to look into the operations of the office and make major changes, because this seems to come up every few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the arrest of Volk, San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju demanded a review of all criminal cases and convictions that relied on lab work performed by the accused lab analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice simply cannot happen when the Medical Examiner’s employees — tasked with providing objective and unbiased scientific evidence and opinion — lack integrity,” Raju said in a statement on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter that same day to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, District Attorney Chesa Boudin estimated that Volk was involved in “testing, collection and preservation of evidence in more than 2,500 law enforcement investigations” comprised of 500 death investigations, 1,200 sexual assault cases and 800 DUI investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DA said Monday that the office is still investigating the Volk case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our office’s ability to prosecute cases is substantially undermined when individual law enforcement officers, or staff at the medical examiner’s office, engage in serious or potentially criminal misconduct,” the DA's office said in a statement after Volk’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin requested a supplemental budget appropriation of $455,731 to “review every case this analyst was involved in to ensure that no conviction or punishment has been improperly tainted,” and to handle an anticipated surge of appeals of prior convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin has called for a hearing to consider ways to restructure the medical examiner’s office to strengthen the integrity and efficiency of death investigations in San the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no question that problems in the medical examiner's office have plagued San Francisco now for many years,” Peskin said. “It is time to bring about structural reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk posted $10,000 bail the same day he was arrested in Utah and was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco DA has so far not charged Volk with any crimes that may have occurred in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But three years ago, his behavior began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources close to Volk, including someone who helped train him, said that he was chronically tardy, arriving to work hours late on multiple days of the week, and that he would disappear for hours in the middle of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite repeated complaints to management about how Volk was forcing other employees to pick up the slack, his erratic behavior appeared to former employees to go unpunished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk was at one point required to clock in for his shifts, but that “did not change the behavior,” the former employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees were not aware of any other actions taken by supervisors to address problems with Volk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Access to Drug Evidence Without Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Volk was “highly favored,” according to former co-workers, who said supervisors allowed him to work alone in the toxicology lab outside of normal work hours, including on weekends. Other lab employees were told they had to get approval in advance to do that and could not enter the lab alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One section of the toxicology lab contains cubicles and offices. Toxicologists perform tests in another section, and a third, glass-enclosed room holds evidence, including illicit drugs. 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Every day he defends his handling of the pandemic or denies allegations published in books by former disgruntled former is a day he’s losing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, are vowing to vote on a Republican nominee in the coming weeks, even though the election is just over 40 days away. The timing of any hearings is not yet clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he does it before the election, it’s going to put his vulnerable senators in a very bad place,” Boxer said. But she added, “Either way, if he does it after the election, I think the Republican Party will be dead and buried.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1307348835300188162\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not really clear what a rushed confirmation would mean politically. And Democrats also have a lot riding on how the White House and McConnell proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, could be pressed to leave the campaign trail if confirmation hearings are set before the election. This would give Harris, known for her sharp and politically polarizing questioning of Trump nominees, a high-profile role, but not one she would necessarily want or benefit from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A confirmation battle could be a good organizing tool for Democrats. But if it consumes progressive interest groups’ time and money, it could also distract from the larger issue of getting Democrats out to vote for the Biden-Harris ticket and for the Democratic Senate candidates in states they’re hoping to flip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"former California Sen. Barbara Boxer\"]“I think that will throw a torch into the Senate, literally. And I think it will change everything.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics aside, states like California have a lot riding on who replaces Ginsburg. Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan said issues involving consumer rights, for example, could more easily be wiped away by a more conservative court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has a lot of progressive laws and there are conservatives who would like to challenge a lot of those laws,” Karlan said. “And Ruth Bader Ginsburg was somebody who was not going to find preemption of state consumer rights issues or preemption of a state’s right to go to court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karlan also said that issues involving immigration and immigrants’ rights, so important in a state like California, would also be at higher risk if the court shifts further to the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women’s groups worry about the court striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman’s right to an abortion and preventing states from banning the procedure outright. The future of LGBT rights, the fate of the Affordable Care Act and even potential legal issues emanating from the November election could also be determined by a sharply more conservative court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler clerked for Ginsburg and is writing a book based on an on-stage conversation with her last fall. Asked what kind of person she thought Ginsburg would want as a replacement, Tyler initially said, “It’s impossible to fill her shoes. She was a legend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Tyler added, “if she were able to speak to it, she would say probably that she would want somebody who believes that the Constitution was a document for all of us, that the story of our Constitution is a story of being ever more welcoming and inclusive. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of mourners gathered in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco Friday night for a candlelit vigil honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838760/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died Friday of complications from cancer at age 87\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many attendees rushed to Harvey Milk Plaza on less than one hour’s notice — alerted by social media posts and an email from organizer Manny Yekutiel, owner of the community space Manny’s in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those assembled described feeling numb and in disbelief at Ginsburg’s passing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of us felt like, ‘Well, as long as RBG is there, we’re gonna be good, we’re gonna be good’,” said San Francisco resident Shawn Rosenmoss. “Now I’m a little lost, which is why I’m here.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Doerr brought her Ruth Bader Ginsburg figurine that she bought at Cliff's Variety to the candlelit vigil in Ginsburg's honor on Sep. 18, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838872\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/027_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Doerr brought her Ruth Bader Ginsburg figurine that she bought at Cliff’s Variety to the candlelit vigil in Ginsburg’s honor on Sep. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although there were few tears, every speech of the night contained an impassioned plea to continue fighting for the late Justice’s gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Megan Rohrer led the assembled group in singing the folk song “Singing for Our Lives” by Holly Near. Rohrer, a transgender pastor who ministers in the Sunset district, said that when their wife told them the news, they were distraught. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The feeling is just when you didn’t think you could have more fear and doubt about what might be happening next in the world, another thing happens and makes you wonder,” they said. “Not knowing what’s going to happen next becomes a source of fear once again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening’s impromptu program also featured two Hebrew prayers to honor Ginsburg, who was Jewish, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the start of Jewish New Year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg\" alt=\"The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk's camera shop, Castro Camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk’s camera shop, Castro Camera. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Castro, a predominately LGBT neighborhood, seemed a fitting location due to the contributions the late justice made to that community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the LGBTQ community — for us — elections and the courts are a matter of life and death,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who attended the gathering and ensuing march. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped create so much of the modern civil rights framework legally. There will never be another like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 200 swelled to more than 500 and slowly marched toward the site of Harvey Milk’s former camera shop on Castro Street. Wiener and District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman along with activist Cleve Jones led the march, flanked by signs reading “RBG” and “We Won’t Let You Down, RBG.” Diners sitting outdoors on the busy street stopped to watch, with many applauding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said he had “been a mess” since he heard the news. He said the Justice’s legacy “is very much up to us over these last two months,” stressing the importance of keeping President Trump from appointing Ginsburg’s successor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was echoed by Wiener, who called Ginsburg a “hero,” and emphasized the need to “fight to make sure Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell don’t steal this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Rosenmoss, she pointed to her two daughters — one in medical school, one applying to law school — as carrying on Ginsburg’s legacy. More broadly, Rosenmoss gestured to the battles that Ginsburg fought “in her life to be an attorney and a mom and a married person. It’s really sad that we have to, every day, keep fighting those fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speakers urged those assembled to vote, stay politically involved, and organize in swing states. Many shared messages of hope for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have her memory be a blessing and move forward to build a better country and a safer world,” said Jones. “That is what she would want us to do, and we all know that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Rohrer, a transgender pastor who ministers in the Sunset district, said that when their wife told them the news, they were distraught. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The feeling is just when you didn’t think you could have more fear and doubt about what might be happening next in the world, another thing happens and makes you wonder,” they said. “Not knowing what’s going to happen next becomes a source of fear once again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening’s impromptu program also featured two Hebrew prayers to honor Ginsburg, who was Jewish, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the start of Jewish New Year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg\" alt=\"The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk's camera shop, Castro Camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/019_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The candlelit vigil in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made its way from Harvey Milk Plaza to the Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store where there were several speakers. The building was once home to Harvey Milk’s camera shop, Castro Camera. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Castro, a predominately LGBT neighborhood, seemed a fitting location due to the contributions the late justice made to that community. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the LGBTQ community — for us — elections and the courts are a matter of life and death,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who attended the gathering and ensuing march. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped create so much of the modern civil rights framework legally. There will never be another like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 200 swelled to more than 500 and slowly marched toward the site of Harvey Milk’s former camera shop on Castro Street. Wiener and District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman along with activist Cleve Jones led the march, flanked by signs reading “RBG” and “We Won’t Let You Down, RBG.” Diners sitting outdoors on the busy street stopped to watch, with many applauding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838866\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillian Reid holds a Ruth Bader Ginsburg candle during a vigil in her honor in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said he had “been a mess” since he heard the news. He said the Justice’s legacy “is very much up to us over these last two months,” stressing the importance of keeping President Trump from appointing Ginsburg’s successor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was echoed by Wiener, who called Ginsburg a “hero,” and emphasized the need to “fight to make sure Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell don’t steal this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Rosenmoss, she pointed to her two daughters — one in medical school, one applying to law school — as carrying on Ginsburg’s legacy. More broadly, Rosenmoss gestured to the battles that Ginsburg fought “in her life to be an attorney and a mom and a married person. It’s really sad that we have to, every day, keep fighting those fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/002_KQED_SanFrancisco_RGBVigil_09182020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephan Ferris lights a candle for Cleve Jones during a vigil to honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Castro on Sep. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speakers urged those assembled to vote, stay politically involved, and organize in swing states. Many shared messages of hope for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have her memory be a blessing and move forward to build a better country and a safer world,” said Jones. “That is what she would want us to do, and we all know that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon has died. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: \"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew what was to come. Ginsburg's death will have profound consequences for the court and the country. Inside the court, not only is the leader of the liberal wing gone, but with the Court about to open a new term, Chief Justice John Roberts no longer holds the controlling vote in closely contested cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has a consistently conservative record in most cases, he has split from fellow conservatives in a few important ones, this year casting his vote with liberals, for instance, to at least temporarily protect the so-called Dreamers from deportation by the Trump administration, to uphold a major abortion precedent, and to uphold bans on large church gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. But with Ginsburg gone, there is no clear court majority for those outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1982px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1982\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2.jpg 1982w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1982px) 100vw, 1982px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg speaks during the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington on April 1, 2005. \u003ccite>(Haraz Ghanbari/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Upcoming Political Battle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a week after the upcoming presidential election, the court is for the third time scheduled to hear a challenge brought by Republicans to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. In 2012 the high court upheld the law by a 5-to-4 vote, with Chief Justice Roberts casting the deciding vote and writing the opinion for the majority. But this time the outcome may well be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because Ginsburg's death gives Republicans the chance to tighten their grip on the court with another Trump appointment that would give conservatives a 6-to-3 majority. And that would mean that even a defection on the right would leave conservatives with enough votes to prevail in the Obamacare case and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the battle to achieve that will be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In 2016 he took a step unprecedented in modern times: He refused for nearly a year to allow any consideration of President Obama's supreme court nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg']'My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, McConnell's justification was the upcoming presidential election, which he said would allow voters a chance to weigh in on what kind of justice they wanted. But now, with the tables turned, McConnell has made clear he will not follow the same course. Instead he will try immediately push through a Trump nominee so as to ensure a conservative justice to fill Ginsburg's liberal shoes, even if President Trump were to lose his reelection bid. Asked what he would do in circumstances like these, McConnell said: \"Oh, we'd fill it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens in the coming weeks will be bare-knuckle politics, writ large, on the stage of a presidential election. It will be a fight Ginsburg had hoped to avoid, telling Justice Stevens shortly before his death that she hoped to serve as long as he did — until age 90.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My dream is that I will stay on the court as long as he did,\" she said in an interview in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838802 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg hugs President Barack Obama as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill on Feb. 12, 2013. \u003ccite>(Jason Reed/Reuters /Landov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Tough As Nails'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>She didn't quite make it. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nonetheless an historic figure. She changed the way the world is for American women. For more than a decade, until her first judicial appointment in 1980, she led the fight in the courts for gender equality. When she began her legal crusade, women were treated, by law, differently from men. Hundreds of state and federal laws restricted what women could do, barring them from jobs, rights and even from jury service. By the time she donned judicial robes, however, Ginsburg had worked a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was never more evident than in 1996 when, as a relatively new Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg wrote the court's 7-to-1 opinion declaring that the Virginia Military Institute could no longer remain an all-male institution. True, said Ginsburg, most women — indeed most men — would not want to meet the rigorous demands of VMI. But the state, she said, could not exclude women who could meet those demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reliance on overbroad generalizations ... estimates about the way most men or most women are, will not suffice to deny opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description,\" Ginsburg wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was an unlikely pioneer, a diminutive and shy woman, whose soft voice and large glasses hid an intellect and attitude that, as one colleague put it, was \"tough as nails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time she was in her 80s, she had become something of a rock star to women of all ages. She was the subject of a hit documentary, a biopic, an operetta, merchandise galore featuring her \"Notorious RBG\" moniker, a Time magazine cover, and regular \"Saturday Night Live\" sketches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one occasion in 2016, Ginsburg got herself into trouble and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/486080234/listen-justice-ginsburg-expands-on-decision-to-apologize-for-trump-remarks\">later publicly apologized\u003c/a> for disparaging remarks she made about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the most part Ginsburg enjoyed her fame and maintained a sense of humor about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the fact that she had apparently fallen asleep during the 2015 State of the Union address, Ginsburg did not take the Fifth, admitting that although she had vowed not to drink at dinner with the other justices before the speech, the wine had just been too good to resist. The result, she said, was that she was perhaps not an entirely \"sober judge\" and kept nodding off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Road To Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Ruth Bader went to public schools, where she excelled as a student — and as a baton twirler. By all accounts, it was her mother who was the driving force in her young life, but Celia Bader died of cancer the day before the future Justice would graduate from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 17, Ruth Bader went on to Cornell on full scholarship, where she met Martin (aka \"Marty\") Ginsburg. \"What made Marty so overwhelmingly attractive to me was that he cared that I had a brain,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her graduation, they were married and went off to Fort Sill, Okla., for his military service. There Mrs. Ginsburg, despite scoring high on the civil service exam, could only get a job as a typist, and when she became pregnant, she lost even that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, the couple returned to the East Coast to attend Harvard Law School. She was one of only nine women in a class of over 500 and found the dean asking her why she was taking up a place that \"should go to a man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Harvard, she was the academic star, not Marty. The couple was busy juggling schedules, and their toddler when Marty was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Surgeries and aggressive radiation followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that left Ruth with a 3-year-old child, a fairly sick husband, the law review, classes to attend and feeding me,\" said Marty Ginsburg in a 1993 interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience also taught the future justice that sleep was a luxury. During the year of Marty's illness, he was only able to eat late at night; after that he would dictate his senior class paper to Ruth. At about 2 a.m., he would go back to sleep, Ginsburg recalled in an NPR interview. \"Then I'd take out the books and start reading what I needed to be prepared for classes the next day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty Ginsburg survived, graduated, and got a job in New York; his wife, a year behind him in school, transferred to Columbia, where she graduated at the top of her law school class. Despite her academic achievements, the doors to law firms were closed to women, and though recommended for a Supreme Court clerkship, she wasn't even interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was bad enough that she was a woman, she recalled later, but she was also a mother, and male judges worried that she would be diverted by her \"familial obligations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mentor, law professor Gerald Gunther, finally got her a clerkship in New York by promising Judge Edmund Palmieri that if she couldn't do the work, he would provide someone who could. That was \"the carrot,\" Ginsburg would say later. \"The stick\" was that Gunther, who regularly fed his best students to Palmieri, told the judge that if he didn't take Ginsburg, Gunther would never send him a clerk again. The Ginsburg clerkship apparently was a success; Palmieri kept her not for the usual one year, but two, from 1959-61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg's next path is rarely talked about, mainly because it doesn't fit the narrative. She learned Swedish so she could work with Anders Berzelius, a Swedish civil procedure scholar. Through the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, Ginsburg and Berzelius co-authored a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, Ginsburg finally landed a teaching job at Rutgers law school, where she at one point hid her second pregnancy by wearing her mother-in-law's clothes. The ruse worked; her contract was renewed before her new baby was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Rutgers, she began her work fighting gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1185px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838804 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1185\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2.jpg 1185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1185px) 100vw, 1185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg and her husband, Marty, laugh as they listen to Justice Stephen Breyer speak at Columbia Law School on Sept. 12, 2003 \u003ccite>(Ed Bailey/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The 'Mother Brief'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Her first big case was a challenge to a law that barred a Colorado man named Charles Moritz from taking a tax deduction for the care of his 89-year-old mother. The IRS said the deduction, by statute, could only be claimed by women, or widowed or divorced men. But Moritz had never married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax court concluded that the internal revenue code was immune to constitutional challenge, a notion that tax lawyer Marty Ginsburg viewed as \"preposterous.\" The two Ginsburgs took on the case, he from the tax perspective, she from the constitutional perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Marty Ginsburg, for his wife, this was the \"mother brief.\" She had to think through all the issues and how to fix the inequity. The solution was to ask the court not to invalidate the statute but to apply it equally to both sexes. She won in the lower courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Amazingly,\" he recalled in a 1993 NPR interview, the government petitioned the United States Supreme Court, stating that the decision \"cast a cloud of unconstitutionality\" over literally hundreds of federal statutes, and it attached a list of those statutes, which it compiled with Defense Department computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those laws, Marty Ginsburg added, \"were the statutes that my wife then litigated ... to overturn over the next decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1971, she would write her first Supreme Court brief in the case of \u003cem>Reed v. Reed. \u003c/em>Ginsburg represented Sally Reed, who thought she should be the executor of her son's estate instead of her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutional issue was whether a state could automatically prefer men over women as executors of estates. The answer from the all-male supreme court: no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time the court had ever struck down a state law because it discriminated based on gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838798\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11838798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-scaled.jpg 1980w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1020x1319.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1188x1536.jpg 1188w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1584x2048.jpg 1584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1920x2483.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg talks with filmmaker David Grubin about his PBS series, \u003cem>The Jewish Americans\u003c/em>, on Jan. 10, 2008. \u003ccite>(Kevin Wolf/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then Ginsburg was earning quite a reputation. She would become the first female tenured professor at Columbia Law School, and she would found the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chief architect of the battle for women's legal rights, Ginsburg devised a strategy that was characteristically cautious, precise and single-mindedly aimed at one goal: winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing that she had to persuade male, establishment-oriented judges, she often picked male plaintiffs, and she liked Social Security cases because they illustrated how discrimination against women can harm men. For example, in \u003cem>Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld\u003c/em>, she represented a man whose wife, the principal breadwinner, died in childbirth. The husband sought survivor's benefits to care for his child, but under the then-existing Social Security law, only widows, not widowers, were entitled to such benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This absolute exclusion, based on gender per se, operates to the disadvantage of female workers, their surviving spouses, and their children,\" Ginsburg told the justices at oral argument. The Supreme Court would ultimately agree, as it did in five of the six cases she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the ensuing years, Ginsburg would file dozens of briefs seeking to persuade the courts that the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection applies not just to racial and ethnic minorities, but to women as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, she explained the legal theory that she eventually sold to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The words of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause — 'nor shall any state deny to any person the equal protection of the laws.' Well that word, 'any person,' covers women as well as men. And the Supreme Court woke up to that reality in 1971,\" Ginsburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these pioneering years, Ginsburg would often work through the night as she had during law school. But by this time, she had two children, and she later liked to tell a story about the lesson she learned when her son, in grade school, seemed to have a proclivity for getting into trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scrapes were hardly major, and Ginsburg grew exasperated by demands from school administrators that she come in to discuss her son's alleged misbehavior. Finally, there came a day when she had had enough. \"I had stayed up all night the night before, and I said to the principal, 'This child has two parents. Please alternate calls.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she found, the calls were few and far between. It seemed, she said, that most infractions were not worth calling a busy husband about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap120411123595_wide-5910f9126165cf78bce8466017fc59b9d3219834-2-scaled-e1600473699297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg (left) joins the only three other women to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court — Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — in a celebration of O'Connor, the first woman justice, at the Newseum in Washington in 20 \u003ccite>(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Supreme Court's Second Woman\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1980 then-President Jimmy Carter named Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Over the next 13 years, she would amass a record as something of a centrist liberal, and in 1993 then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court, the second woman appointed to the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was not first on his list. For months Clinton flirted with other potential nominees, and some women's rights activists withheld their active support because they were worried about Ginsburg's views on abortion. She had been publicly critical of the legal reasoning in \u003cem>Roe v. Wade. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the background, Marty Ginsburg was lobbying hard for his wife. And finally Ruth Ginsburg was invited for a meeting with the president. As one White House official put it afterward, Clinton \"fell for her--hook, line and sinker.\" So did the Senate. She was confirmed by a vote of 96 to 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838774 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bill Clinton announces Ruth Bader Ginsburg as his nominee to the Supreme Court during a news conference in Washington D.C., on June 14, 1993. Ginsburg replaced retired Justice Byron White and became the nation's second female justice. \u003ccite>(Doug Mills/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once on the court, Ginsburg was an example of a woman who defied stereotypes. Though she looked tiny and frail, she rode horses well into her 70s and even went parasailing. At home, it was her husband who was the chef, indeed a master chef, while the justice cheerfully acknowledged that she was an awful cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a liberal, she and the court's conservative icon, Antonin Scalia, now deceased, were the closest of friends. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/07/10/200137481/scalia-v-ginsburg-supreme-court-sparring-put-to-music\">an opera called \u003cem>Scalia/Ginsburg\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is based on their legal disagreements, and their affection for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, as Ginsburg's place on the court grew in seniority, so did her role. In 2006, as the court veered right after the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Ginsburg dissented more often and more assertively, her most passionate dissents coming in women's rights cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissenting in \u003cem>Ledbetter v. Goodyear\u003c/em> in 2007, she called on Congress to pass legislation that would override a court decision that drastically limited back-pay available for victims of employment discrimination. The resulting legislation was the first bill passed in 2009 after President Barack Obama took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, she dissented fiercely from the court's decision in \u003cem>Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, \u003c/em>a decision that allowed some for-profit companies to refuse, on religious grounds, to comply with a federal mandate to cover birth control in health care plans. Such an exemption, she said, would \"deny legions of women who do not hold their employers' beliefs, access to contraceptive coverage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where, she asked, \"is the stopping point?\" Suppose it offends an employer's religious belief \"to pay the minimum wage\" or \"to accord women equal pay?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2013, when the court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, contending that times had changed and the law was no longer needed, Ginsburg dissented. She said that throwing out the provision \"when it has worked and is continuing to work ... is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ruth Bader Ginsberg']'Some of my favorite opinions are dissenting opinions ... I will not live to see what becomes of them, but I remain hopeful'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She viewed her dissents as a chance to persuade a future court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of my favorite opinions are dissenting opinions,\" Ginsburg told NPR. \"I will not live to see what becomes of them, but I remain hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Ginsburg still managed some unexpected victories by winning over one or two of the conservative justices in important cases. In 2015, for example, she authored the court's decision upholding independent redistricting commissions established by voter referenda as a way of removing some of the partisanship in drawing legislative district lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg always kept a backbreaking schedule of public appearances both at home and abroad\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>even after five bouts with cancer: colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer 10 years later, lung cancer in 2018, and then pancreatic cancer again in 2019 and liver lesions in 2020. During that time, she endured chemotherapy, radiation, and in the last years of her life, terrible pain from shingles that never went away completely. All who knew her admired her grit. In 2009, three weeks after major cancer surgery, she surprised everyone when she showed up for the State of the Union address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that, she was back on the bench; it was her husband Marty who told her she could do it, even when she thought she could not, she told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later her psychological toughness was on full display when her beloved husband of 56 years was mortally ill. As she packed up his things at the hospital before taking him home to die, she found a note he had written to her. \"My Dearest Ruth,\" it began, \"You are the only person I have ever loved,\" setting aside children and family. \"I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell....The time has come for me to ... take leave of life because the loss of quality simply overwhelms. I hope you will support where I come out, but I understand you may not. I will not love you a jot less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that, Marty Ginsburg died at home. The next day, his wife, the justice, was on the bench, reading an important opinion she had authored for the court. She was there, she said, because \"Marty would have wanted it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, she would read the letter aloud in an NPR interview, and at the end, choke down the tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years after Marty's death, she would persevere without him, maintaining a jam-packed schedule when she was not on the bench or working on opinions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some liberals criticicized her for not retiring while Obama was president, but she was at the top of her game, enjoyed her work enormously, and feared that Republicans might not confirm a successor. She was an avid consumer of opera, literature, and modern art. But in the end, it was her work, she said, that sustained her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that I was born under a very bright star,\" she said in an NPR interview. \"Because if you think about my life, I get out of law school. I have top grades. No law firm in the city of New York will hire me. I end up teaching; it gave me time to devote to the movement for evening out the rights of women and men. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was that legal crusade for women's rights that ultimately led to her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the end of her tenure, she remained a special kind of feminist, both decorous and dogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon has died. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: \"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew what was to come. Ginsburg's death will have profound consequences for the court and the country. Inside the court, not only is the leader of the liberal wing gone, but with the Court about to open a new term, Chief Justice John Roberts no longer holds the controlling vote in closely contested cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has a consistently conservative record in most cases, he has split from fellow conservatives in a few important ones, this year casting his vote with liberals, for instance, to at least temporarily protect the so-called Dreamers from deportation by the Trump administration, to uphold a major abortion precedent, and to uphold bans on large church gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. But with Ginsburg gone, there is no clear court majority for those outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1982px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1982\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2.jpg 1982w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_12_slide-93969b5aa430b7b6996ffc5f8f081178be82fa88-2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1982px) 100vw, 1982px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg speaks during the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington on April 1, 2005. \u003ccite>(Haraz Ghanbari/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Upcoming Political Battle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a week after the upcoming presidential election, the court is for the third time scheduled to hear a challenge brought by Republicans to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. In 2012 the high court upheld the law by a 5-to-4 vote, with Chief Justice Roberts casting the deciding vote and writing the opinion for the majority. But this time the outcome may well be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because Ginsburg's death gives Republicans the chance to tighten their grip on the court with another Trump appointment that would give conservatives a 6-to-3 majority. And that would mean that even a defection on the right would leave conservatives with enough votes to prevail in the Obamacare case and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the battle to achieve that will be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In 2016 he took a step unprecedented in modern times: He refused for nearly a year to allow any consideration of President Obama's supreme court nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, McConnell's justification was the upcoming presidential election, which he said would allow voters a chance to weigh in on what kind of justice they wanted. But now, with the tables turned, McConnell has made clear he will not follow the same course. Instead he will try immediately push through a Trump nominee so as to ensure a conservative justice to fill Ginsburg's liberal shoes, even if President Trump were to lose his reelection bid. Asked what he would do in circumstances like these, McConnell said: \"Oh, we'd fill it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens in the coming weeks will be bare-knuckle politics, writ large, on the stage of a presidential election. It will be a fight Ginsburg had hoped to avoid, telling Justice Stevens shortly before his death that she hoped to serve as long as he did — until age 90.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My dream is that I will stay on the court as long as he did,\" she said in an interview in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838802 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/11076641_h21192027_slide-6dd2122ae20b3e23ba078e4afeb0c7cfce0227b8-2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg hugs President Barack Obama as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill on Feb. 12, 2013. \u003ccite>(Jason Reed/Reuters /Landov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Tough As Nails'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>She didn't quite make it. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nonetheless an historic figure. She changed the way the world is for American women. For more than a decade, until her first judicial appointment in 1980, she led the fight in the courts for gender equality. When she began her legal crusade, women were treated, by law, differently from men. Hundreds of state and federal laws restricted what women could do, barring them from jobs, rights and even from jury service. By the time she donned judicial robes, however, Ginsburg had worked a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was never more evident than in 1996 when, as a relatively new Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg wrote the court's 7-to-1 opinion declaring that the Virginia Military Institute could no longer remain an all-male institution. True, said Ginsburg, most women — indeed most men — would not want to meet the rigorous demands of VMI. But the state, she said, could not exclude women who could meet those demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reliance on overbroad generalizations ... estimates about the way most men or most women are, will not suffice to deny opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description,\" Ginsburg wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was an unlikely pioneer, a diminutive and shy woman, whose soft voice and large glasses hid an intellect and attitude that, as one colleague put it, was \"tough as nails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time she was in her 80s, she had become something of a rock star to women of all ages. She was the subject of a hit documentary, a biopic, an operetta, merchandise galore featuring her \"Notorious RBG\" moniker, a Time magazine cover, and regular \"Saturday Night Live\" sketches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one occasion in 2016, Ginsburg got herself into trouble and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/486080234/listen-justice-ginsburg-expands-on-decision-to-apologize-for-trump-remarks\">later publicly apologized\u003c/a> for disparaging remarks she made about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the most part Ginsburg enjoyed her fame and maintained a sense of humor about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the fact that she had apparently fallen asleep during the 2015 State of the Union address, Ginsburg did not take the Fifth, admitting that although she had vowed not to drink at dinner with the other justices before the speech, the wine had just been too good to resist. The result, she said, was that she was perhaps not an entirely \"sober judge\" and kept nodding off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Road To Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Ruth Bader went to public schools, where she excelled as a student — and as a baton twirler. By all accounts, it was her mother who was the driving force in her young life, but Celia Bader died of cancer the day before the future Justice would graduate from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 17, Ruth Bader went on to Cornell on full scholarship, where she met Martin (aka \"Marty\") Ginsburg. \"What made Marty so overwhelmingly attractive to me was that he cared that I had a brain,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her graduation, they were married and went off to Fort Sill, Okla., for his military service. There Mrs. Ginsburg, despite scoring high on the civil service exam, could only get a job as a typist, and when she became pregnant, she lost even that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, the couple returned to the East Coast to attend Harvard Law School. She was one of only nine women in a class of over 500 and found the dean asking her why she was taking up a place that \"should go to a man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Harvard, she was the academic star, not Marty. The couple was busy juggling schedules, and their toddler when Marty was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Surgeries and aggressive radiation followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that left Ruth with a 3-year-old child, a fairly sick husband, the law review, classes to attend and feeding me,\" said Marty Ginsburg in a 1993 interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience also taught the future justice that sleep was a luxury. During the year of Marty's illness, he was only able to eat late at night; after that he would dictate his senior class paper to Ruth. At about 2 a.m., he would go back to sleep, Ginsburg recalled in an NPR interview. \"Then I'd take out the books and start reading what I needed to be prepared for classes the next day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty Ginsburg survived, graduated, and got a job in New York; his wife, a year behind him in school, transferred to Columbia, where she graduated at the top of her law school class. Despite her academic achievements, the doors to law firms were closed to women, and though recommended for a Supreme Court clerkship, she wasn't even interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was bad enough that she was a woman, she recalled later, but she was also a mother, and male judges worried that she would be diverted by her \"familial obligations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mentor, law professor Gerald Gunther, finally got her a clerkship in New York by promising Judge Edmund Palmieri that if she couldn't do the work, he would provide someone who could. That was \"the carrot,\" Ginsburg would say later. \"The stick\" was that Gunther, who regularly fed his best students to Palmieri, told the judge that if he didn't take Ginsburg, Gunther would never send him a clerk again. The Ginsburg clerkship apparently was a success; Palmieri kept her not for the usual one year, but two, from 1959-61.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginsburg's next path is rarely talked about, mainly because it doesn't fit the narrative. She learned Swedish so she could work with Anders Berzelius, a Swedish civil procedure scholar. Through the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, Ginsburg and Berzelius co-authored a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, Ginsburg finally landed a teaching job at Rutgers law school, where she at one point hid her second pregnancy by wearing her mother-in-law's clothes. The ruse worked; her contract was renewed before her new baby was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Rutgers, she began her work fighting gender discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1185px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838804 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1185\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2.jpg 1185w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap03091207588_slide-1f65fe415831459bc01bfcf6e20b79d72a4ed335-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1185px) 100vw, 1185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg and her husband, Marty, laugh as they listen to Justice Stephen Breyer speak at Columbia Law School on Sept. 12, 2003 \u003ccite>(Ed Bailey/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The 'Mother Brief'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Her first big case was a challenge to a law that barred a Colorado man named Charles Moritz from taking a tax deduction for the care of his 89-year-old mother. The IRS said the deduction, by statute, could only be claimed by women, or widowed or divorced men. But Moritz had never married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax court concluded that the internal revenue code was immune to constitutional challenge, a notion that tax lawyer Marty Ginsburg viewed as \"preposterous.\" The two Ginsburgs took on the case, he from the tax perspective, she from the constitutional perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Marty Ginsburg, for his wife, this was the \"mother brief.\" She had to think through all the issues and how to fix the inequity. The solution was to ask the court not to invalidate the statute but to apply it equally to both sexes. She won in the lower courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Amazingly,\" he recalled in a 1993 NPR interview, the government petitioned the United States Supreme Court, stating that the decision \"cast a cloud of unconstitutionality\" over literally hundreds of federal statutes, and it attached a list of those statutes, which it compiled with Defense Department computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those laws, Marty Ginsburg added, \"were the statutes that my wife then litigated ... to overturn over the next decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1971, she would write her first Supreme Court brief in the case of \u003cem>Reed v. Reed. \u003c/em>Ginsburg represented Sally Reed, who thought she should be the executor of her son's estate instead of her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutional issue was whether a state could automatically prefer men over women as executors of estates. The answer from the all-male supreme court: no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time the court had ever struck down a state law because it discriminated based on gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838798\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11838798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-scaled.jpg 1980w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1020x1319.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1188x1536.jpg 1188w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1584x2048.jpg 1584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_17-259490fa8dad7bbf54882da381ffae57a4ccc155-2-1920x2483.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg talks with filmmaker David Grubin about his PBS series, \u003cem>The Jewish Americans\u003c/em>, on Jan. 10, 2008. \u003ccite>(Kevin Wolf/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then Ginsburg was earning quite a reputation. She would become the first female tenured professor at Columbia Law School, and she would found the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chief architect of the battle for women's legal rights, Ginsburg devised a strategy that was characteristically cautious, precise and single-mindedly aimed at one goal: winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing that she had to persuade male, establishment-oriented judges, she often picked male plaintiffs, and she liked Social Security cases because they illustrated how discrimination against women can harm men. For example, in \u003cem>Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld\u003c/em>, she represented a man whose wife, the principal breadwinner, died in childbirth. The husband sought survivor's benefits to care for his child, but under the then-existing Social Security law, only widows, not widowers, were entitled to such benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This absolute exclusion, based on gender per se, operates to the disadvantage of female workers, their surviving spouses, and their children,\" Ginsburg told the justices at oral argument. The Supreme Court would ultimately agree, as it did in five of the six cases she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the ensuing years, Ginsburg would file dozens of briefs seeking to persuade the courts that the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection applies not just to racial and ethnic minorities, but to women as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, she explained the legal theory that she eventually sold to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The words of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause — 'nor shall any state deny to any person the equal protection of the laws.' Well that word, 'any person,' covers women as well as men. And the Supreme Court woke up to that reality in 1971,\" Ginsburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these pioneering years, Ginsburg would often work through the night as she had during law school. But by this time, she had two children, and she later liked to tell a story about the lesson she learned when her son, in grade school, seemed to have a proclivity for getting into trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scrapes were hardly major, and Ginsburg grew exasperated by demands from school administrators that she come in to discuss her son's alleged misbehavior. Finally, there came a day when she had had enough. \"I had stayed up all night the night before, and I said to the principal, 'This child has two parents. Please alternate calls.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she found, the calls were few and far between. It seemed, she said, that most infractions were not worth calling a busy husband about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838809 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ap120411123595_wide-5910f9126165cf78bce8466017fc59b9d3219834-2-scaled-e1600473699297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsburg (left) joins the only three other women to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court — Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — in a celebration of O'Connor, the first woman justice, at the Newseum in Washington in 20 \u003ccite>(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Supreme Court's Second Woman\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1980 then-President Jimmy Carter named Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Over the next 13 years, she would amass a record as something of a centrist liberal, and in 1993 then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court, the second woman appointed to the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was not first on his list. For months Clinton flirted with other potential nominees, and some women's rights activists withheld their active support because they were worried about Ginsburg's views on abortion. She had been publicly critical of the legal reasoning in \u003cem>Roe v. Wade. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the background, Marty Ginsburg was lobbying hard for his wife. And finally Ruth Ginsburg was invited for a meeting with the president. As one White House official put it afterward, Clinton \"fell for her--hook, line and sinker.\" So did the Senate. She was confirmed by a vote of 96 to 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11838774 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/ruth_04_slide-e0cecae8ed53293f57d73bceba92176c9c11813f-1-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bill Clinton announces Ruth Bader Ginsburg as his nominee to the Supreme Court during a news conference in Washington D.C., on June 14, 1993. Ginsburg replaced retired Justice Byron White and became the nation's second female justice. \u003ccite>(Doug Mills/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once on the court, Ginsburg was an example of a woman who defied stereotypes. Though she looked tiny and frail, she rode horses well into her 70s and even went parasailing. At home, it was her husband who was the chef, indeed a master chef, while the justice cheerfully acknowledged that she was an awful cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a liberal, she and the court's conservative icon, Antonin Scalia, now deceased, were the closest of friends. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/07/10/200137481/scalia-v-ginsburg-supreme-court-sparring-put-to-music\">an opera called \u003cem>Scalia/Ginsburg\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is based on their legal disagreements, and their affection for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, as Ginsburg's place on the court grew in seniority, so did her role. In 2006, as the court veered right after the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Ginsburg dissented more often and more assertively, her most passionate dissents coming in women's rights cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissenting in \u003cem>Ledbetter v. Goodyear\u003c/em> in 2007, she called on Congress to pass legislation that would override a court decision that drastically limited back-pay available for victims of employment discrimination. The resulting legislation was the first bill passed in 2009 after President Barack Obama took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, she dissented fiercely from the court's decision in \u003cem>Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, \u003c/em>a decision that allowed some for-profit companies to refuse, on religious grounds, to comply with a federal mandate to cover birth control in health care plans. Such an exemption, she said, would \"deny legions of women who do not hold their employers' beliefs, access to contraceptive coverage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where, she asked, \"is the stopping point?\" Suppose it offends an employer's religious belief \"to pay the minimum wage\" or \"to accord women equal pay?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2013, when the court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, contending that times had changed and the law was no longer needed, Ginsburg dissented. She said that throwing out the provision \"when it has worked and is continuing to work ... is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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