Ruth Ginsburg, women's rights champion of US Supreme Court, dies at 87

Liberal icon's death less than two months before election gives President Donald Trump a chance to try to shift the already conservative court further to the right

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose 27-year tenure as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court culminated a legal career dedicated to advancing the rights of women, has died. She was 87.

Her death less than two months before the election gives President Donald Trump a chance to try to shift the already conservative court further to the right.

Ginsburg died due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer and was surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, the court said in a statement Friday.

Her health had been a top-of-mind concern at the court and throughout Washington in