The U.S. Supreme Court recently began its first term in decades without Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the “notorious” justice best known for writing powerful dissents while advancing gender justice.

Ginsburg’s final dissent, issued a few months before her death, criticized the majority’s decision in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, 140 S. Ct. 2367, which upheld the Trump administration’s broad religious and moral exemptions for private employers who object to providing contraceptive coverage in group health plans. Joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Ginsburg admonished the majority for its imbalanced accommodation of employers’ personal beliefs at the expense of employees’ health and well-being. In Ginsburg’s words, the court left “women workers to fend for themselves, to seek contraceptive coverage from sources other than their employer’s insurer, and, absent another available source of funding, to pay for contraceptive services out of their own pockets.”

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