US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87 due to complications from pancreatic cancer.
Justice Ginsburg died at her home in Washington DC surrounded by her family, the US Supreme Court said.
She had been a member of the Supreme Court since 1993 and was a champion of women’s rights who became an icon for American liberals.
Young women particularly seemed to embrace the judge, affectionately referring to her as the Notorious RBG.
She announced in July that she was undergoing chemotherapy for lesions on her liver, after suffering five bouts of cancer beginning in 1999.
