The New York City Police Department said it was investigating the vandalism, discovered Tuesday on a subway platform in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits with fellow members of the Supreme Court for a group portrait in Washington on Nov. 30. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow March 14 at 12:31 AM This post contains an image with graphic language and symbol
Scrawled in what appeared to be black marker over the face of the Supreme Court justice were the words, “Die, Jew b----.” Beneath the obscenity was a swastika. When she joined the Supreme Court in 1993, she became its first-ever female Jewish justice. She is now the high court’s longest-serving Jewish member. In 2015, she teamed up with a D.C. rabbi to release a feminist take on the Passover story. Her chambers are adorned with a framed command from Deuteronomy, meaning “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”
Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined other city leaders, as well as New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo , in condemning the vandalism.
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