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U.S. NEWS Thursday 24 sepTember 2020

Ginsburg remembered as prophet for justice, American icon

By MARK SHERMAN and court in tribute. Court work-
MATTHEW BARAKAT ers cleared away the items
Associated Press and cleaned the court
WASHINGTON (AP) — With plaza and sidewalk in ad-
crowds of admirers swell- vance of Wednesday's cer-
ing outside, Supreme Court emony.
Justice Ruth Bader Gins- Inside, the entrance to
burg was remembered the courtroom, along with
Wednesday at the court by Ginsburg's chair and place
grieving family, colleagues on the bench next to Rob-
and friends as a prophet erts, have been draped in
for justice who persevered black, a longstanding court
against long odds to be- custom. These visual signs
come an American icon. of mourning, which in years
The court's eight justices, past have reinforced the
masked along with every- sense of loss, will largely go
one else because of the unseen this year. The court
coronavirus pandemic, begins its new term Oct. 5,
gathered for the first time but the justices will not be
in more than six months in the courtroom and in-
for the ceremony to mark stead will hear arguments
Ginsburg's death from can- by phone.
cer last week at age 87 af- On Friday, Ginsburg will lie
ter 27 years on the court. The flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, carried by Supreme Court police officers, in state at the Capitol, the
Washington already is con- arrives in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. first woman to do so and
sumed with talk of Gins- Associated Press only the second Supreme
burg's replacement, but Court justice after William
Chief Justice John Roberts the court to limit the num- Washington, D.C., com- be such a giant," Setzler Howard Taft. Taft had also
focused on his longtime ber of people inside the pared Ginsburg to a proph- said, wearing a face mask been president. Rosa Parks,
colleague. building, which has been et who imagined a world of adorned with small portraits a private citizen not a gov-
The best words to describe closed to the public since greater equality and then of Ginsburg. ernment official, is the only
Ginsburg are "tough, brave, March. worked to make it happen. Rachel Linderman and Ry- woman who has lain in
a fighter, a winner," Roberts Thousands of people were "This was Justice Ginsburg's chelle Weseman of Olean, honor at the Capitol.
said, but also "thoughtful, expected to pay their re- life's work. To insist that the New York, traveled to the Ginsburg will be buried be-
careful, compassionate, spects to the women's rights Constitution deliver on its nation's capital because side her husband, Martin, in
honest." champion and leader of promise, that we the peo- they said they wanted to a private ceremony at Ar-
The woman who late in life the court's liberal bloc. Her ple would include all the be counted among Gins- lington National Cemetery
became known in admira- casket, carried inside past people. She carried out burg's followers and dem- next week. Martin Ginsburg
tion as the Notorious RBG her former law clerks who that work in every chapter onstrate how important her died in 2010. She is survived
"wanted to be an opera lined the courthouse steps, of her life," said Holtzblatt, legacy is to Americans. by her son and daughter,
virtuoso, but became a is to be on public view until whose husband, Ari, once They said they were buoyed four grandchildren, two
rock star instead," Roberts 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9 worked as a law clerk to as they waited in line to be step-grandchildren and a
said. Ginsburg's two chil- a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday. Ginsburg. surrounded by people who great-grandchild.
dren, Jane and James, and The members of the court Outside, some people felt the same way. Ginsburg's death has add-
other family members sat were arrayed in their seats waiting to pass by the cas- "I liked that I was with like- ed another layer of tumult
on one side of the casket, in order of seniority, now ket said they had driven minded people," Linder- to an already chaotic elec-
across from the justices. changed by Ginsburg's through the night. One of man said. "I feel ener- tion year. President Donald
With her portrait on dis- death so that Justices Clar- those in line, Heather Set- gized,." Trump and Senate Repub-
play nearby, Ginsburg's ence Thomas and Stephen zler, a physician assistant "Where we live, we're usu- licans are plowing ahead
flag-draped casket sat in Breyer flanked Roberts. from Raleigh, North Caro- ally in the minority," Wese- with plans to have a new
the court's Great Hall for Breyer took the spot Gins- lina, said she named her man said. justice on the bench, per-
the private service before burg held when the court two cats Hillary Ruth and Since Ginsburg's death haps before the Nov. 3
it was moved outside so last gathered for a justice's Kiki, in honor of Ginsburg's Friday evening, people election. Trump, who trad-
the public could honor her memorial, in 2019 following childhood nickname. have been leaving flow- ed insults with Ginsburg four
Wednesday and Thursday. the death of John Paul Ste- "There was just something ers, notes, placards and years ago, was expected
Health precautions be- vens. about her. She was so di- all manner of Ginsburg to pay his respects on
cause of the pandemic led Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of minutive yet turned out to paraphernalia outside the Thursday.q
Appeals court rejects rehearing in transgender bathroom case

Associated Press jected a request from the Grimm to use restrooms The school board had ar- An attorney for the school
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Gloucester County School that corresponded with his gued that laws protect board did not immediately
federal appeals court on Board for a rehearing to sex assigned at birth — fe- against discrimination respond to a request for
Wednesday denied a re- review a ruling that the male — or to use private based on sex, not gender comment Wednesday.
quest for a full-court review board's policy discriminat- restrooms. identity. Because Grimm Grimm filed his lawsuit in
of a ruling that a Virginia ed against Gavin Grimm, A federal judge in Norfolk had not undergone sex-re- 2015, saying he suffered
school board's transgender a transgender student ruled against the school assignment surgery and still from urinary tract infec-
bathroom ban is unconsti- who was barred from us- board last year, a ruling had female genitalia, the tions from avoiding school
tutional. ing the boys bathrooms at that was upheld last month board's position was that bathrooms as well as sui-
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Gloucester High School. by a three-judge panel of he remained anatomically cidal thoughts that led to
Appeals in Richmond re- The board's policy required the 4th Circuit. a female. hospitalization.q