The late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court Wednesday and Thursday, giving mourners two full days to pay their respects before she is laid to rest.
, Ginsburg served 27 years on the court and another 13 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before that, she led the battle for gender equality at the American Civil Liberties Union, winning five of six cases she argued at the Supreme Court.Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Second woman on Supreme Court had been nation's leading litigator for women's rights
A New York City native who attended Harvard Law School before graduating from Columbia Law School, Ginsburg was a law professor at Columbia and Rutgers before President Jimmy Carter named her to the appeals court in 1980. She was elevated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, winning Senate confirmation by a vote of 96-3.
During President Barack Obama's second term, Ginsburg did not heed the advice of some liberal allies to retire so that Democrats could replace her. She hoped to retire if Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, but Trump's upset victory spoiled her plan.– have left flowers and memorials outside the court in a mass showing of sympathy and support.
Trump plans to announce his nominee to succeed Ginsburg once events commemorating her life and career have been held. The front-runners are federal appeals court judges
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