Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Cautious adjudication, the gravitas of soft-spoken word. Your legendary legacy, illustrious and exalted. Advocate for gender justice, legal insights not always heard. Yet, your jurisprudence was seldom persuasively faulted. Few men invite state regulation of their sex organs. Yet, many insist the state can control a woman’s body. You, the bulwark against unconstitutional legal actions, against state laws of men, pious and haughty. Now you have departed, and we gaze upon the cavity. Now we dread what might be used to fill the void. The precedents of your life, our guidance against depravity. Your advocacy for equality must be our natural law employed.