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JOHN Roberts, US CHIEF JUDGE
He spoke today during a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court.
Subsequently, the coffin draped with Ginsburg flags was placed on top of the courthouse steps so that the public could pay their respects to the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Thousands of people are expected to pay tribute throughout the day to the defender of women’s rights, who died last week at the age of 87.
“His voice in court and in our conference room was soft, but when he spoke people listened,” Roberts said.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will rest for two days
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Ginsburg’s coffin arrived in court at 9:30 a.m. local time and was carried into the Great Hall of the court, passing his former legal clerks who lined the steps.
Inside, the eight remaining court judges, all wearing masks, were together for the first time since the building was closed in March and attended meetings by phone.
Due to the pandemic, the judges’ chairs were separated.
Ginsburg will rest for two days in court where she served for 27 years, and before that, she defended six cases in favor of gender equality in the 1970s.
His coffin will be in public view from 11 a.m. M. At 10 p. Today and from 9 a. M. At 10 p. M. Tomorrow.
A hearse bearing the flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives at the Washington Supreme Court
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About 500 members of the public gathered to pay their respects this morning.
Since her death on Friday night, people have been leaving flowers, notes, posters and all manner of paraphernalia outside the courthouse in tribute to the judge who became known in her later years as the Notorious RBG.
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Court workers removed the items and cleaned the pavement of the court square before Wednesday’s ceremony.
Inside, the entrance to the courtroom, along with Ginsburg’s chair and the bench seat next to Roberts, have been upholstered in black, a long-standing court custom.
On Friday, she will be on Capitol Hill, the first woman to do so and only the second Supreme Court Justice after William Howard Taft, who was also president.
Rosa Parks, a private citizen rather than a government official, is the only woman who has bowed in honor on Capitol Hill.
Ginsburg will be buried alongside her husband Martin, who died in 2010, in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery next week.
He is survived by a son and daughter, four grandchildren, two grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
Only Chief Justice Roger Taney, who died in October 1864, died closer to the presidential election.
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