At Mountain View RBG Vigil Attendees Say They Are Fearful

Photos by Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg championed individual rights throughout her career. She founded the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and from 1973 to 1978 she argued six women’s rights appeals in the Supreme Court. In 1993, President Bill Clinton chose her to replace Justice Byron White on the Supreme Court and she became only the second woman, after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, to sit on the high court.

Ginsburg established herself as one of the leading liberal justices of the modern era and worked largely on a tribunal dominated by judicial conservatives. When she turned 87 in March, she became the fourth oldest sitting justice in U.S. history.

Sadly, Ginsburg left us before the election. On September 19 in Mountain View, California, demonstrators at a vigil in her honor said they fear Trump may be successful in his plan to seat his choice of replacement. They worry a Republican chosen justice will be a supporter of gun rights and try to overturn Roe v. Wade.