Flag Flown at Half Staff in Washington After Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3 年前

Following the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday, September 18, flags outside the United States Supreme Court and the US Capitol were flown at half-staff.

Ginsburg, 87, died from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts said in the statement.

“Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”

Ginsburg became the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and was quoted in reports as a “pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon.”

Footage from near the US Capitol building shows a flag at half-staff. Credit: @cameronahahn via Storyful