LA City Council Authorizes Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monument In Van Nuys
The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday authorized a monument of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be installed at Van Nuys Civic Center.
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The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday authorized a monument of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be installed at Van Nuys Civic Center.
The Daily Show correspondent discusses her special on the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The demonstrations, which occurred nationwide, focused on the Trump Administration's anti-abortion stance and efforts to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state at the U.S. Capitol, many in Southern California flocked to the Skirball Cultural Center Friday to honor her one last time.
Ginsburg, who died last week at the age of 87, is the first woman and the first Jewish person to receive this honor.
The memorial display will be open to visitors Friday from noon until 8 p.m., and only curbside visits will be allowed.
On Friday, Ginsburg will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. She will become the first woman to do so.
A date has been set, a location announced and the path cleared for a vote in the Senate on a new Supreme Court justice this year. But who will President Trump choose to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday?
The proposal was put forth by LA City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez and Councilman David Ryu, who noted the late justice was a daughter of immigrants and the first in her family to go to college.
The president said the White House should wait to announce a nominee until after funeral services "in all due respect" to Ginsburg.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a Republican senator whose vote will be key as the Senate weighs confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, announced Sunday she is opposed to moving forward with filling the vacancy given the close proximity to the general election.
"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," McConnell said in a statement on Friday evening.
"There isn't a woman in America who has not benefited and lived a better life because of her vast contributions to the women's movement," Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez said.
According to a statement released by the court, she died Friday evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C. due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Ginsburg, who was admitted at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is expected to be released from the hospital by the end of the week.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, has been hospitalized for a gallbladder infection, but she plans to participate in oral arguments Wednesday.
The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent radiation therapy for a malignant tumor in New York City.
A planned Skirball Cultural Center event featuring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been cancelled due to her ongoing recovery from cancer surgery.
She had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung. It's Ginsburg's third bout with cancer since she joined the court in 1993.
Ginsburg fractured three ribs on her left side during a fall Wednesday evening in her Supreme Court office.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the protests of football players during the national anthem "dumb and disrespectful."
The Supreme Court justices are back in Washington, D.C., and after the stunt Chief Justice John Roberts pulled three months ago with the Obamacare ruling, I would prefer it was Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson coming into town instead.
