Did the best she could

So much more can be said about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday evening. There has been such an outpouring of emotion every since then, including an enormous vigil in San Francisco that night only an hour or so after word came of her death. Thousands gathered outside the Supreme Court building too and at candlelight memorials all across the country.

The late justice only stood 5'1" but she was truly larger than life. It would seem that most folks agree. Yesterday I quoted some of the tributes, but I'd like to ask you - what does the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean to you personally? How will you remember her?

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that a statue of her will be constructed in Brooklyn to honor the justice's "life and legacy."

Her seat on the United States Supreme Court will remain vacant until a presidential appointment and Senate confirmation. It is unknown when that will happen but Senator Dianne Feinstein of California (the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee), said "Today, we’re just 46 days away from an election. To jam through a lifetime appointment to the country’s highest court, particularly to replace an icon like Justice Ginsburg, would be the height of hypocrisy."

What would Ginsburg herself say about all this? In her own words: "I would just like people to think of me as a judge who did the best she could with whatever limited talent I had to keep our country true to what makes it a great nation and to make things a little better than they might have been if I hadn't been there."