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Justices pay respects to late Sandra Day O’Connor ahead of DC funeral
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December 18, 2023
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1:00Now PlayingAll nine of the Supreme Court’s current justices lined up to pay their respects Monday to the late Sandra Day O’Connor, the court’s first female member.
The justices, joined by the retired Anthony Kennedy, stood to greet the trailblazing jurist’s remains inside the court’s Great Hall after her casket was carried up the building’s front stairs facing the Capitol.
O’Connor’s body will lie in repose outside the nation’s most powerful courtroom before a Tuesday funeral at the National Cathedral, where President Biden will deliver a eulogy.
O’Connor died Dec. 1 at age 93 after serving as a closely watched swing vote on the highest court in the land from 1981 through January 2006.
President Ronald Reagan nominated O’Connor less than six months into his first term to replace the retiring Potter Stewart, keeping one of his 1980 campaign pledges, and she easily won confirmation in a 99-0 Senate vote.
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