IN PICS: US Supreme Court Chief Justice And Champion Of Women’s Right Ruth Bader Ginsburg Passes Away At 87

People gather at the Supreme Court on Friday to honour Ginsburg. She was appointed in 1993 by the then President Bill Clinton and over the years became a strong liberal voice in the court. Image (AP/PTI)

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was a champion of women's rights and the court's second female justice, died on Friday at her home in Washington. The 87- year- old died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Image (ANI)

Mourners light candles placed below a mural of late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by artist Rose Jaffe, in Washington, DC. Ginsburg who is a mother of two co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1972.The organisation played a pivotal role in challenging discrimination based on sex in administrative roles.(Image: AFP)

A flag flies half-mast near mourners gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court after the passing of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to create a debate on whether President Donald Trump should nominate the next Supreme Court justice or if the seat should remain vacant. (Image: AFP

A woman reacts as mourners gather on the steps of the Supreme Court. She was affectionately known as the Notorious RBG. According to a report by PTI, the name was coined by a law student who admired Ginsburg's dissent in a case cutting back on a key civil rights law. (Image: AFP)

Mourners gather on the steps of the Supreme Court after the passing of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On hearing the news of her death, President Donald Trump said, "Her opinions, including well-known decisions regarding the legal equality of women and the disabled, have inspired all Americans, and generations of great legal minds. A fighter to the end, Justice Ginsburg battled cancer, and other very long odds, throughout her remarkable life.” (Image: AFP)

A woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial on the steps of the Supreme Court building in memory of the late US Supreme Court Justice in Washington, DC. US Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement, “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,". Born in 1933 to Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York City, studied at Harvard Law School. At the time she was the one among the nine female student in a class of about 500 men. Image (AFP)