WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the women’s rights champion, leader of the court’s liberal bloc and feminist icon who died last week.
I watched the procession of her casket arriving at the Court and the short service which included remarks by CJ Roberts. It was very moving.
ETA: I’d rather Trump leave without visiting the Court. Let RBG have her moment without his nasty presence.
The sight of Clarence Thomas’s hideous wife in attendance is yet another reminder of just how far this hypocrisy has gone on. Travesty.
2020 continues its drive to be named “Worst Year Ever.” It’s tragic that we lost her so soon before the election, it’s infuriating that “The McConnell Rule” only applied when there was a Democrat in the White House. Let’s vote these bastards out in November.
The accompanying pictures say everything.
She was promised some vodka if she attended. Or at least many many people are saying it more and more.
Absolutely beautiful. The words of her Rabbi had me in tears.
The service was beautiful. She will be honored long after those who have debased our country have been reviled and then consigned to the contempt they have earned.
She started gabbing while walking by Ginsburg’s coffin - she couldn’t show enough decency to be quiet.
I mourn for RBG. My mom’s name was also Ruth that passed away in July. It’s been a rough year for sure.
I wish RBG retired in 2014 (Dem senate & President) to avoid a 6-3 court.
Her legacy will not be matched by her replacement.
Fascist Five should be barred from any of it and told never to speak her name again.
It’s so wrenching to see the casket, but so moving and inspiring to see how many people she mentored–and how many lives she touched. I’ve seen reactions from people who have already come from far and wide just to pay tribute to RBG…
No motherfucking repugs should be allowed within SIGHT of her casket, goddammit.
I am pretty sure there was no love lost between them.
Gingsburg and Scalia, for example, formed a friendship, because they at least shared an intellectual bond. Thomas’ wife is an ignorant grifter who has actually done more to tarnish the SCOTUS than her husband has.
In other words, she is exactly the sort of person that Ginsburg would despise.
May we all remember the lessons and life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It is fitting that she died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, as the last day of the old year is passing. That can be interpreted as she was held back from dying until the last moments of the year, because her life and work was so valued and needed, right up to the end of the year.
Rosh Hashanah celebrates the end of the year, but also is the time to take stock of one’s life for the next year. It ushers in the Ten Days of Repentance, culminating in the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
I don’t know it this is widely know, but when Justice Ginsburg was awarded the $1 Million 2019 Prize from the Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, she donated it all to over 60 charities of her choice, Including the Malala Fund, Hand in Hand, American Bar Association, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, etc.
So here’s what I’m going to do to honor Justice GInsberg for Yom Kippur. You don’t have to be Jewish to do this…
There is a common prayer recited on the last day of Yom Kippur, called Yizkor, which means “rememberance.” It is a memorial prayer given at the end of four major Jewish Holidays throughout the year. Here it is:
May G-d remember
the soul of Ruth Bader Ginsberg
who has gone on to her world,
because, without making a vow,
I shall give to charity on her behalf.
As reward for this,
may her soul be bound
in the Bond of Life,
together with the souls
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah;
and together with the other righthteous men and women
in the Garden of Eden.
Now let us respond: Amen.
And I’m going to send a check to Planned Parenthood, maybe to ACLU, maybe to SPLC, I can think of a whole lot of worthy charities, with the line “In Memory of the Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg.”
RIP, Justice GInsberg. 
I hate 2020 so much. I really miss her.
It’s the Final Countdown to Armageddon for the Evangelicals! Trump is fulfilling their Biblical Prophecy…
The Left Behind Rapture awaits!
I’d love to get my hands on the motherfucker who wrote the Book of Revelations. He has caused more goddamn trouble down the millennia.
I find the photo of her former law clerks and others in descending lines on the courthouse stops to greet her casket to be very moving.