WASHINGTON _ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who rose from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to become a famed women's rights litigator, Supreme Court justice and unexpected pop culture celebrity, died from complications of pancreatic cancer Friday. She was 87.
"Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a Supreme Court statement. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her _ a tireless and resolute champion of justice."
