Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday after complications from pancreatic cancer.
The 87-year-old served as a Supreme Court justice for the last 27 years.
Ginsburg became an icon of the fight for women’s rights throughout the last several decades of her life.
The Supreme Court seat she leaves vacant will become a likely focal point of the 2020 United States election, as Donald Trump and his Democratic Party challenger Joe Biden will fight to see who will replace her.
NPR reports in her last days she told her granddaughter “my most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
