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Ginsburg has passed!!

laughing dog said:
Booing Mr. Trump at a funeral is behaving like Mr. Trump: no class.
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Absolutely. It cheapens all the accomplishments that came about because of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. I also understand the sentiment that motivated people to act in such a manner. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I lean toward the first statement more than the second.
 
Mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but don't give in to despair — it's time to fight like hell instead | Salon.com - "Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her life's work overcoming the odds to change the world—for real—and we can embrace that"

Nice tribute by Amanda Marcotte

What you'll find is the story of a woman who looked at a world that seemingly had no space for her or her ideas, shrugged, and forged ahead anyway. She was one of only nine women in her class at Harvard Law. When she graduated, law firms weren't interested in hiring women, especially if they were married mothers or Jewish, and Ginsburg was both. And yet she ended up on the Supreme Court.

But even more importantly, she won a series of victories as a feminist lawyer that frankly would seem impossible, if we didn't live in the world she had created by doing so. In the 1970s, Ginsburg argued six — six! — cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning five.

As Ian Millhiser of Vox notes, this required arguing in front of a bunch of male judges who sprung from "a society that was so sexist that many of them had never had a female colleague." These were men whose power and privilege rested, in large part, upon centuries of oppression of women, and like most men of the time, they were aware on some level that women's equality meant giving up some of that power and privilege.

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It's arguable that Ginsburg was, if anything, too tenacious. She was too stubborn to retire from the court when there was a chance Barack Obama could nominate her replacement, a decision that no one should bother to defend. But, as with most strong-willed people, her flaws flowed from the same traits that made her great. And we should embrace that pig-headed unwillingness to give up, even when it seems like giving up is the only option.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lay in State on Friday. Here’s What That Means. - The New York Times - "Justice Ginsburg was the first woman to receive the posthumous tribute, joining a long list of representatives, senators and presidents."
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, became the first woman to lie in state in the United States Capitol on Friday.

The rare distinction was announced on Monday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Justice Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18 at 87, “fought for our values til the end,” Ms. Pelosi said on Twitter. Her death, the speaker said, was an “incredible devastating loss for America.”

Ahead of Friday’s ceremony at the Capitol, Justice Ginsburg lay in repose outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday and Thursday, her flag-draped coffin positioned under the portico atop the building’s front steps.
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This custom dates back to 1852.

Strictly speaking, "lying in state" is for those who have served in a government position, and it applies to when their coffins are on display in some gov't building, like the Capitol.

If outside such a building, it's "lying in repose"

Anyone not from a gov't position but whose coffin is in display in a gov't building is "lying in honor".

Even though "lying in state" is often used more broadly than this.
Aside from the 34 people to lie in state, four private citizens have lain in honor at the Capitol. They were the Rev. Billy Graham, the Christian evangelist, in 2018; Rosa Parks, the civil rights leader, in 2005; and two Capitol Police officers, Jacob J. Chestnut and John Gibson, who were shot in the Capitol in 1998.
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Of these people, 12 have been Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Taft, Kennedy, Hoover, Eisenhower, Johnson, Reagan, Ford and Bush I. Harry Truman passed on that ceremony, because he didn't like big ceremonies and his wife didn't want to be First Lady.

Another 16 have been Representatives, with the latest ones being Elijah Cummings and John Lewis.

Also,
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. George Dewey, J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I., unknown soldiers of major wars in the 20th century, and Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the planner who designed the layout of Washington.
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I think it is key that the nominee be asked if she will commit to recusing herself from any case regarding the election. The code of conduct for judges says that they must be apolitical and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. And the president has already said he wants her in quickly for the *very reason* of adjudicating the election. The conflict of interest is glaring and we will see what kind of *integrity* she has. She can be a justice for much, much longer than Trump will be around so we will see if she wants her reputation tarnished from the get go.
 
Her religious views are odd, but it is probably her views on complete deference to corporations (like limiting rights in class action lawsuits and arbitration) that will be worse for more people.
 
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"Catholic head-veils critical for preventing spread of Covid-19"

Trausti, you amateur.
 
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