President Trump mentioned Monday he would wait till after Justice Ginsburg’s funeral to call his nominee to succeed her, as a way to “pay respect.” However in the identical interview, he claimed, with no proof, that Justice Ginsburg’s “dying want” that she wouldn’t get replaced till a brand new president was put in would possibly even have been written by a high Democrat like Consultant Adam B. Schiff of California, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York or Ms. Pelosi of California.
The White Home mentioned on Monday that Mr. Trump deliberate to pay his respects in particular person on the Supreme Court docket, as President Barack Obama and his spouse, Michelle Obama, did in 2016 when Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon, died. The Obamas have been criticized, nevertheless, for skipping his funeral and sending Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as a substitute.
The marketing campaign of Mr. Biden, now the Democratic presidential nominee, has not mentioned whether or not he deliberate to journey to Washington to pay his respects to Justice Ginsburg.
In the course of the ceremonies on the Supreme Court docket, Justice Ginsburg’s former legislation clerks will function honorary pallbearers and line the entrance steps as her coffin arrives, the courtroom introduced Monday. A 2016 portrait of Justice Ginsburg will probably be on show contained in the courtroom, and the coffin, as is customary, will probably be positioned on the Lincoln catafalque, which was used for President Abraham Lincoln’s coffin when his physique lay in state within the Capitol Rotunda in 1865.
A non-public ceremony within the courtroom, which will probably be open solely to Justice Ginsburg’s household, shut pals and members of the courtroom, will happen on Wednesday morning contained in the Nice Corridor, the courtroom introduced on Monday.
A non-public interment service will probably be held subsequent week at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, the place Justice Ginsburg’s husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, was buried in 2010.