Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes on

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died aged 87 after a battle with metastatic pancreas cancer, the Supreme Court has announced.

The Democrat judge, only the second woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, passed away Friday evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington D.C. following complications with her illness. Ginsburg, who served for 27 years on the highest court of the land, had battled several bouts of cancer after first being diagnosed back in 2009. She announced in July she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for lesions on her liver. Politicians from both sides of the political divide paid tribute to the Justice, while hundreds of people gathered in front of the US Supreme Court Friday night. 

Her death paves the way for Donald Trump to expand his conservative majority on the Supreme Court ahead of November's election.