Today on Sojourner Truth:

On Friday, September 18, 87-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died. Justice Ginsburg served from 1993 to 2020. She was the first Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court; and following Sandra Day O'Connor, was the second woman overall to serve on the Court. Throughout her tenure, Justice Ginsburg issued countless votes and dissents in defense of the rights of women, workers and voters of color. Justice Ginsburg died from complications of pancreatic cancer. Now, she will become the first woman in history to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. Her casket will be placed inside of the National Statuary Hall on Friday, September 25. Justice Ginsburg's passing has opened a vacancy on the nations top court just about six weeks before Novembers historic presidential election.

Today, our guests weigh in on the implications of her death, what it means for the Supreme Court moving forward, what it means for the balance of power in the United States, and the upcoming election. Our guests are Francis Boyle, Junius Williams and Marjorie Cohn. Francis A. Boyle is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and also a Professor in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Junius Williams is a nationally recognized attorney, musician, educator and independent thinker who has been at the forefront of the Civil Rights and Human Rights Movements in this country for decades. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years.