GIULIETTA TALEVI: How RBG’s death will shape the US’s future
The adulation for the late Supreme Court justice is something that South Africans may appreciate given the importance the judiciary holds as one of the last bulwarks of accountability in SA’s increasingly unaccountable and corrupt political life
21 September 2020 - 06:00
It is testament to an extraordinary life and career that the international press this weekend was wall-to-wall coverage of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — known affectionately to legions of fans as the “Notorious RBG” — who died on Friday night at the age of 87.
To gain a sense of her importance in US legal, political and cultural life, it is worth watching this New York Times obituary (https://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/100000006849413/ruth-bader-ginsburg-obituary.html?searchResultPosition=1) video entitled “The Radical Project of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”...
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