Iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remembered At Fort Lauderdale Vigil: 鈥業t鈥檚 Been Devastating'

SA国际传谋 Public Media | By Megan O'Matz

Published September 20, 2020 at 1:09 PM EDT

People gather at the Federal Courthouse, in Fort Lauderdale for a candlelight vigil to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Saturday, September 19, 2020.

SA国际传谋 75 people came Saturday evening to the steps of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale to honor and mourn Ginsburg, who succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer.

FORT LAUDERDALE 鈥� At a candlelight vigil Saturday night for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a little girl romped around wearing a crown and sporting a T-shirt that declared, in glitter: 鈥淪trong Girl, Bright Future.鈥�

The U.S. Supreme Court justice who died Friday night at age 87 would surely agree.

A feminist icon, Ginsburg founded the Women鈥檚 Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s, where she fought for gender equity. In 1993 she became only the second woman in history to join the nation鈥檚 highest court.

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