>> BREAKING OFF THE TOP TONIGHT, SAD NEWS FROM U.S. SUPREME COURT.
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG DIED
AFTER CANCER.
>> POWER HOUSE PIONEER DIES AT
87.
>> A LOOK BACK AT HER LIFE AND
LEGACY, ROSS?
>> CALVIN, NICOLE.
THIS WAS CRUSHING NEWS THE
MILLIONS NOT JUST LIBERALS, ALL
AMERICANS WHO HAVE COME TO SEE
RUTH BADER GINSBURG AS AN
AMERICAN ICON.
SYMBOL OF JUSTICE AND SURVIVAL.
A WOMAN SURVIVED SEVERAL BOUTS
OF CANCER TO REACH THE AGE OF
87.
MANY TIMES IT IS DURING A HEATED
CASE, TONIGHT MOSTLY QUIET
MOURNING AND REMEMBRANCE OF
GINSBURG.
CHIEF JUSTICE SAYING SHE WAS A
CHERISHED COLLEAGUE.
>> RUTH BADER GINSBURG
SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AS SHE DIED
AT HER WASHINGTON HOME FROM
PANCREATIC CANCER, SHE WAS 87.
HER RISE FROM HUMBLE BEGINS IN
BROOKLYN TO THE HIGHEST COURT.
>> WHAT IS THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN
BOOKKEEPER AND SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE, JUST ONE GENERATION, MY
MOTHER’S LIFE AND MINE BEAR
WITNESS.
WHERE ELSE BUT CAN AMERICA CAN
THAT HAPPEN.
>> STILL FACED DISCRIMINATION
WITH A JEWISH WOMAN WITH A
CHILD.
1980 FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT
JUDGE.
>> SO HELP ME GOD.
>> PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON NAMED
HER TO THE PRESIDENT SUPREME
COURT SECOND WOMAN IN HISTORY,
FIRST LIBERAL FEMALE VOTING FOR
ABORTION ACCESS AND CIVIL
RIGHTS.
THE COURTS STOPPED THE FLORIDA
BALLOT RECOUNT IN 2000 OR LILY
LED BETTER PAID DISCRIMINATION
CASE.
RECENT YEARS, SHE BECAME FAMOUS
NOT ONLY AS THE SENIOR LIVER BUT
SURVIVOR FROM PANCREATIC, LUNG
CANCER.
>> IT WAS BEYOND MY WILDEST
IMAGINATION I WOULD ONE DAY COME
NOTORIOUS RGB.
>> TIRELESS WORKER WHO LOVED TO
LAUGH ESPECIALLY WITH THE LATE
ANT NON SCALIA.
>> WHAT IS NOT TO LIKE.
EXCEPT HER VIEWS OF THE LAW, OF
COURSE.
HER OWN LOVE FOR LIFE AND LAUGH
INFECTIOUS AS WELL AS HER LOVE
FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL.
E PEOPLE ASK ME WHEN WILL THERE
BE ENOUGH WOMEN ON THE COURT MY
ANSWER WHEN THERE ARE NINE.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE
DONE SO GOOD, SUPREME COURT, WE
HAVE TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
>> ODDLY ENOUGH, PRESIDENT WAS
ONE OF THE LAST IN THE
ADMINISTRATION TO LEARN ABOUT
GINSBURG’S DEATH.
HE WAS ON STAGE.
IT WASN’T UNTIL TWO HOURS LATER
WHEN HE GOT OFF THE STAGE HE
FOUND OUT FROM THE PRESS.
LISTEN TO HIS AND JOE BIDEN’S
RESPONSE.
>> WOW.
>> I DIDN’T KNOW THAT.
YOU ARE TELLING ME FOR THE FIRST
TIME.
SHE LED AN AMAZING LIFE.
SHE WAS AN AMAZING WOMAN.
WHETHER YOU AGREED OR NOT LED AN
AMAZING LIFE.
>> IN THE COMING DAYS, WE SHARED
FOCUS ON THE LOSS OF THE JUSTICE
AN HER ENDURING LEGACY.
THERE IS NO DOUBT, "LETTERS TO
GOD" ME BE CLEAR, VOTERS SHOULD
PICK THE PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT SHOULD PICK THE
JUSTICE FOR THE SENATE TO
CONSIDER.
>> JUST A NOTE ON THE HISTORY,
THEN SENATOR JOE BIDEN WHO
PREVIEDED OVER RUTH BADER
GINSBURG CONFIRMATION HEARING
AFTER PRESIDENT CLINTON
APPOINTED HER.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH
MCCONNELL WILL ISSUE A
STATEMENT, THAT NOMINEE WILL GET
A VOTE IN THE SENATE.
CALVIN AND DEMOCRATS -- ANT NON
SCALIA DIED IN 2016, PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA HAD 10 MONTHS LEFT
AND BLOCKED ANY VOTE FOR HIS
NOMINEE MERIT GARLAND.
WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS ON THAT
IN THE COMING DAYS.
ALL OF THAT WILL BEGIN AT DAWN.
ALL OF THAT AT THE SUPREME
COURT, HUNDREDS MOURNING AND