At the Supreme Court, a Farewell to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
At the Supreme Court, a Farewell to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday at a ceremony in its Great Hall, just steps from the courtroom where she reshaped American law, first as a litigator who secured landmark victories for women’s rights and then as a justice whose skill and grit turned her into a cultural icon.Though the courtroom has been empty since March, when the coronavirus pandemic forced the justices to cancel arguments, the court has draped black wool crepe over Justice Ginsburg’s chair, from which — sometimes barely visible over the bench — she asked uniformly penetrating and occasionally devastating questions of the lawyers who appeared before her.She was, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement issued after her death on Friday at 87, “a jurist of historic stature.”The ceremony will start three days of extraordinary honors, ones reserved for towering figures in the nation’s history. Justice Ginsburg will, for instance, lie in repose for two days at the court, while the three most recent members of the court to die — Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist — did so for one day each.In a concession to the pandemic, Justice Ginsburg’s coffin will be placed outside, under the court’s portico, so members of the public may pay their respects. #CapitolBuilding(WashingtonDC) #FuneralsandMemorials #GinsburgRuthBader #SupremeCourt(US) #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #updatesonusnewsonacqro #usnewsacqro #usnewsacqroupdates #usnewsonacqro #usnewsupdates #usanews Read the full article
