RBG Awards Ceremony Scrapped For Murdoch, Musk

The Daily Beast reports:

An awards ceremony where Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others were set to be given an award in the name of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t go ahead as scheduled, the foundation running the event announced Monday, after backlash from the late Supreme Court justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, said in a statement that the “planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled.”

“Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the Foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Opperman wrote in the statement. “And while Justice Ginsburg’s concept of EQUALITY for women was very controversial for most of her life, the Foundation does not intend to enter the fray,” she added. Opperman also said “the last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG.”

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