WASHINGTON: Grief-stricken Americans gathered at makeshift memorials around the country on Saturday to mourn the death of liberal, feminist icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while politicians and Hollywood celebrities paid tribute online.
Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, joined crowds outside the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday morning. Ginsburg was “a titan – a relentless defender of justice and a legal mind for the ages,” Harris wrote in a tweet https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1307328451343515648 with a photo of the visit.
Some on the Supreme Court steps clutched candles, flowers, signs, and young children. Others appeared in running and biking clothes, on a detour from their morning exercising.
Ginsburg, 87, died on…