Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Senators Sherrod Brown (D) and Rob Portman (R)

US Senators Explain Their Changed Positions On Confirming A Supreme Court Nominee In 2016 And Now

Jo Ingles

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Republican Ohio US Senator Rob Portman has been called a hypocrite in recent days for not doing what he called for in an op-ed back in 2016 – holding...

Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, April 17, 2014.

Government & Politics

Ohio's State Solicitor Recalls Ginsburg/Scalia Friendship He Saw In Person

Karen Kasler

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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were known as close friends, though they were ideological opposites.

Community

Morning Headlines: Portman Says He'll Vote on Supreme Court Nominee; Senior, Adult Day Centers Open

Amanda Rabinowitz

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Here are your morning headlines for Monday, August 21:Portman will vote on Supreme Court nomineeSenior centers, adult day cares can reopen todayOhio…

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Government & Politics

Voter Registration Efforts Take on New Urgency in Cleveland Following Death of Supreme Court Justice

Kabir Bhatia

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A Kent State political science professor who specializes in Supreme Court politics is not surprised about the partisan debate that’s erupted over filling…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — here in her chambers during a 2019 interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg — died on Friday at the age of 87.

NPR News

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87

Nina Totenberg

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Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.