Four years ago this week, the media elite despaired at the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was 87 and had been in ill health for years. Not only did journalists openly admire the progressive spin Ginsburg brought to the Court, they also fretted a quick pre-election confirmation of a nominee selected by Republican President Donald Trump would soon unravel Ginsburg’s liberal legacy.
Long before her death, the media had revered Ginsburg as a left-wing legal icon. “She has been called the Thurgood Marshall of the women’s rights movement,” CBS’s Charlie Rose hailed in October 2016.
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become nothing short of a pop culture phenomenon,” NBC’s Craig Melvin gushed on Today in February 2019. A few months later, CBS’s Nikki Battiste joyously introduced a piece about a Ginsburg appearance at the…
