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Ginsburg family blasts plan to give RBG Award to Musk, Murdoch, others

Updated March 15, 2024 at 4:52 p.m. EDT|Published March 15, 2024 at 11:37 a.m. EDT
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, center, poses with her family at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993. (Doug Mills/AP)
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The family of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some of the Supreme Court justice’s former colleagues have denounced this year’s slate of honorees for an award that a philanthropic foundation bestows in the name of the liberal icon.

In a statement Friday, the family called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation’s plans to give its “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award” to conservative billionaires Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, among others, “an affront to the memory of our mother and grandmother.”