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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the first woman in US history to stay in the state at the US Capitol building in Washington on Friday.
It took 168 years. The first American to remain in the state under the famous dome was Henry Clay of Kentucky, who served as Speaker of the House and received the honor in 1852.
Rosa Parks, a civil rights heroine and private citizen, not a government official, was previously the only woman to have slept with honor on Capitol Hill, though not in state, after her death in 2005.
Ginsburg died a week ago at the age of 87, after suffering from cancer, and since Wednesday he has been resting in his flag-draped coffin, outdoors at the top of the stairs that lead to the historic Supreme Court building. .
Thousands have come forward to pay their respects. Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were booed and booed during the visit Thursday.
Despite Ginsburg’s latest wishes that his successor not take a seat until after the next president is installed, Trump plans to announce his nominee on Saturday and hopes to fill the liberal’s seat with an arch-conservative before the Nov.3 election. .
On Friday morning, Ginsburg’s coffin will be carried the short distance to the Capitol, where there will be a private service, and will then lie under the ornate vaulted ceiling of the rotunda.
The service at the famous Statuary Hall will be attended by his family and a small number of politicians, and with musical selections from one of Ginsburg’s favorite opera singers, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, planned to attend, as did Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Trump is campaigning in Florida and has events there and in Georgia and Virginia on Friday, before returning late at night to the White House.
The last American to remain on Capitol Hill was Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, who died in July.
Ginsburg will also be the first American Jew to remain in the state and only the second Supreme Court judge. The first, Chief Justice William Howard Taft, had also been president.
Members of the House and Senate who are not invited to the ceremony due to space limitations imposed by the coronavirus pandemic will be able to pay their respects before a caravan with Ginsburg’s coffin leaves the Capitol in the early afternoon. .
She will be buried with her late husband Marty in Arlington National Cemetery, outside of Washington.
The honor of lying in the state has been awarded less than three dozen times, primarily to presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress.
