U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at age 87

FILE -- From right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fellow justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens leave the Supreme Court building for the casket procession of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in Washington, Sept. 6, 2005. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

FILE -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in Washington, July 21, 1993. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

FILE -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in Washington, July 21, 1993. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

FILE -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits for a group photo with her fellow Supreme Court justices, in Washington, Nov. 30, 2018. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)..

FILE -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, August 23, 2013. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)..

FILE -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a Women's History Month event in Washington, March. 18, 2015. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

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FILE -- From right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fellow justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor and John Paul Stevens leave the Supreme Court building for the casket procession of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in Washington, Sept. 6, 2005. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)