Cornwall’s Democrats mourn with the rest of America’s principled people, and celebrate the life and legal legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And we could not more emphatically echo her parting statement, relayed through her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
It is incumbent on us all to ensure that she is not. The stakes for our nation’s future—for women’s health, for freedom to obtain medical care, for a livable environment, for civil rights—have not been higher in more than a century.