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US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became known as the Notorious RBG, has died aged 87.
The court's second female justice died from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, though she made few concessions to age and recurrent health problems in her latter years.
In her final years on the court, Ms Ginsburg was the unquestioned leader of the liberal justices, as outspoken in dissent as she was cautious in earlier years.
Following news of her death, political leaders in the US and across the world paid tribute to the iconic judge.
Former president Barack Obama has praised Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a “warrior for gender equality” and an “incisive jurist”.
“Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us. It’s about who we are — and who we can be.” Mr Obama said in a tribute on his website.
Mr Obama also demanded Republicans not fill the seat until after the election, in line with their justification for refusing a hearing for Merrick Garland in 2016.
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