RBG’s son fights decision to give Musk and Murdoch mother’s namesake award

Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch receive Ruth Bader Ginsberg Woman of Leadership award, prompting backlash

The son of the late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called a decision to give Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch an award named for his mother a “desecration” of her memory.

Discussing protests made to the Dwight D Opperman Foundation, which gives the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg Woman of Leadership award, James Ginsburg told CNN: “I don’t want to speak to what our other plans might be if the foundation doesn’t see the wisdom of desisting and ending this desecration of my mother’s memory. But I will say that we will continue to fight this.”

Musk, 52, the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, through which he has taken increasingly rightwing political stances;

Murdoch, 93 and the rightwing media baron owner of Fox News;

Michael Milken, 77, a financier jailed on securities charges, pardoned by Trump and now a philanthropist;

And Sylvester Stallone, 77, the star of films including the Rocky saga and the violent Rambo franchise.