Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – a life in pictures

The supreme court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old.

Ginsburg was the second woman appointed to the court in history and became a liberal icon for her sharp questioning of witnesses and intellectually rigorous defenses of civil liberties, reproductive rights, first amendment rights and equal protections under the law

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice, dies aged 87