Ginsburg’s Career, Replacement Parallel Thurgood Marshall’s

Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg both became famous in legal circles as pioneering advocates long before becoming justices, and later helped anchor the Supreme Court’s liberal wing of their respective eras.

In death, Ginsburg, the second female justice, will have one more thing in common with Marshall, the nation’s first Black justice: being replaced with an ideological mirror-image who may wind up undoing much of what they fought for in their careers and on the court. Clarence Thomas replaced Marshall in 1991, and President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg.

“Many admirers of her work ...