Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, leaving hundreds of people mourning her death, CNN confirmed.
Back in 1993, Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing, consistently delivering progressive votes on the most controversial social issues including matters of abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action.
Politicians, journalists, celebrities and fellow justices offered their heartfelt condolences to Ginsburg’s family, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg mentioned.
Many showed emotional tributes to Ginsburg, according to ABC News.
Chief Justice John Roberts expressed his condolences saying, "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature.”
President George W. Bush said he and his wife, Laura Bush, were "fortunate to have known this smart and humorous trailblazer."
President Jimmy Carter, who appointed Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1980, called her a "truly great woman."
"Over a long career on both sides of the bench – as a relentless litigator 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," Obama said in a statement Friday night.
President Donald Trump referred to her as a "titan of the law," who was "renowned for her brilliant mind and her powerful dissents."
"A fighter to the end, she battled cancer, and other very long odds, throughout her remarkable life," Trump said. "May her memory be a great and magnificent blessing to the world."
The justice was loved and admired to the extent that many people gathered outside the Supreme Court, singing in a candlelight vigil and weeping bitter tears.
Dozens of people crowded the high court’s steps and the street across from the U.S. The mourners sat on the high court’s steps quietly thinking of the justice’s legacy, according to (AP).
People illuminated significant numbers of memorial candles with the justice’s photo along the front steps of the court as they knelt in order to leave bouquets of flowers, small American flags and handwritten condolence messages for her.
The crowd gathered singing “Amazing Grace” and “This Land is Your Land” while others embraced one another and wiped their tears. At one moment, the crowd broke into a thunderous applause — lasting for about a minute — for her.
“Thank you RBG,” one sign read. On the sidewalk, “RBG” was drawn inside a pink chalk heart.
The peaceful and gloomy solace turned tense for several minutes after a man with a megaphone approached people in the crowd chanting that “Roe v. Wade is dead,” a refence to the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing abortion rights nationwide.
People confronted the man which caused a brief shouting match. Many in the crowd began yelling “RBG” to try to drown out the man’s voice as he continued to say Republicans would push to quickly appoint a conservative justice to the court. Supreme Court police officers stood alongside the crowd and the man eventually left the area.
It seems like every single person loved and respected the justice deeply whether civil people or politician and presidents.