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  • September 30, 2020
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for a photo in her chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington on July 24, 2013. Associate Justice Ginsburg assumed office on August 10, 1993, after being nominated by former US President Bill Clinton. Here's her life and career in pictures.

The late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first woman and Jewish person in history to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. Thirty-four men have been so honored at the Capitol since 1852. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who was not a public official, was lain in “honor” at the Capitol Rotunda in 2005, but Ginsburg will be the first woman to lie in state. Read HERE.

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