Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Second Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 87

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose 27-year tenure as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court culminated a legal career dedicated to advancing the rights of women, has died. She was 87.

She died due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer and was surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, the court said in a statement Friday. Ginsburg battled with five bouts of cancer.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her chambers following an interview in Washington, D.C. in 2013.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Her death comes less than two months before an election and gives President Donald Trump a chance to try to shift the already conservative nine-member court further to the right by filling ...