Judge Stephen Reinhardt Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who struck down California's Proposition 8 as well as gay marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho, and wrote a ruling that barred jurors from being removed because of sexual orientation, has died at 87.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the USA 9 Circuit Court of Appeals died Thursday in Southern California, a court spokesperson confirmed.
Reinhardt died of a heart attack.
In 1994, Judge Reinhardt wrote a scathing rebuke of President Bill Clinton for not nominating liberal judges to the federal bench, writing in the Los Angeles Times: "Someone must carry on the work of the court's great progressive thinkers - the justices who ended de jure racial segregation, brought us one man/one vote, opened the courts to the poor and needy, established the right to counsel for all defendants, gave women true legal equality".
The Times said some of Reinhardt's and the circuit's rulings did not sit well with the U.S. Supreme Court.
'As a judge, he was deeply principled, fiercely passionate about the law and fearless in his decisions, ' 9th Circuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas said in a statement. He'll be remembered as one of many giants of the national seat.
Reinhardt was appointed to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
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Reinhardt also wrote rulings that said laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide were unconstitutional and overturned California's previous ban on same-sex marriage.
Reinhardt was 87, report BuzzFeed News, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press.
"Judge Stephen Reinhardt's decisions reflected the way he lived his life - with empathy, compassion and integrity", former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tweeted.
Numerous rulings preferred defendants facing criminal costs, minorities and immigrants and were eventually chased by the conservative Supreme Court, " the Los Angeles Times claimed. He got a bachelors degree from Pomona School a degree from Yale Law School in 1954. "He also was a judge with a particular vision of the law, based on enforcing the Constitution to protect people".
Rather than declare a constitutional right for gays and lesbians to Wednesday their chosen partners, Reinhardt crafted a narrower decision, based on past Supreme Court rulings that said a state could not withdraw rights in order to harm a politically unpopular group. He served from the U.S. Air pressure before 1956 then went to private clinic in Los Angeles before 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Ramona Ripston, the former director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; three children; and seven grandchildren. He knew it was totally pointless. "He wanted his voice and his objections heard".
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