US Supreme Court judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dies of cancer at 87
By Ejiogu C. Paul
The United State Supreme Court Justice Ruth Nader Ginsburg, died of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer at her home, surrounded by her family, she was aged 87.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered five bouts of cancer, with the recent recurrence in early this year. She returned to work quickly after been treated several times in the hospital.
Before her death, Ruth Nader Ginsburg served the Supreme Court for 27 years, she was the second ever woman to sit on the Supreme Court and also the oldest justice.
In a statement by Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday, reacting to her death, he said “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature.”
Reacting to her death, in a tweet, Republican United State President Donald Trump said Ginsburg was a “titan of law” and a “brilliant mind.”
Many other Citizens have taken to popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to eulogise the late Bader.
