She is the first Jewish American to lie in state on Friday, and just the second Supreme Court justice.
Harris said RBG, as the late justice is known by many, “absolutely” and intentionally cleared a path for women like her in civic life.
She and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer welcomed Ginsburg’s casket, which made the short procession from the court’s steps, where it had been on public view for several days, to the East Front of the Capitol. A military honor guard carried it inside the Capitol’s stately Statuary Hall. It departed a few hours later, with female lawmakers on the Capitol steps waving goodbye.
Small in stature, large in history, the Brooklyn-born Ginsburg was remembered as a bright Columbia graduate who was passed over for jobs at a time when few women entered law, only to go on to reshape the nation’s laws protecting women’s rights and equality. Services were brief, with the rabbi’s reflections and prayer, before guests lined up to pass by the casket and pay their respects.
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