Thea Bissell wept behind her mask as she thought about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
“She was just an incredible icon and she fought so hard for us,” said Bissell, a Somerville resident who pushed her 1-year-old son Eberlan’s stroller over to the memorial for the late associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. “Literally until her dying day she fought for all of us.”
They were part of a steady trickle of RBG fans who made the pilgrimage to the Harvard Law School throughout the day after the death of the famed U.S. Supreme Court justice, who once attended the prestigious institution.
A makeshift memorial took shape on the steps of the law library on Saturday in Cambridge, a lit candle sitting above a big piece of poster board with notes attached to it, that read messages such as “RIP RBG” and “Thank you for all the glass ceilings you broke.”
Molly O’Keefe, a second-year student at Harvard Law, came by and left a note — “Thank you so much for all you’ve done,” O’Keefe wrote. “We’ll carry the banner from here.”
O’Keefe was one of a few women who said that the trailblazing justice, who earlier in her career was an advocate for women’s rights, was a reason they enrolled in law school.
“She’s one of my heroes — she’s one of the big reasons I’m here,” O’Keefe told the Herald after leaving the note.
Amelia Cossentino, a Harvard sophomore, said she hopes to go to law school some day, and views Ginsburg’s approach as a guiding light for people going into the profession.
“”It was just about doing justice to the law,” Cossentino said, citing Ginsburg’s famous close friendship with the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia as a positive. The pair often disagreed, but found common ground in their personal lives — and shared a civil-libertarian streak in their legal thinking.
The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who’d suffered from cancer, died Friday. Her death immediately set off a political firestorm over what will happen with the vacant seat on the nine-member high court, with President Trump gearing up to move on a pick very quickly, and Democrats digging in their heels so close to an election.
Manami Uechi, a Harvard grad student, said she wished this moment weren’t so immediately politically charged so people could spend just a bit more time honoring a woman who commanded broad respect.
“It’s frustrating that we can’t just grieve her passing,” Uechi said.
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