Justices Ginsburg and O'Connor will get statues on US Capitol grounds

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get statues on the grounds of the US Capitol after President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bipartisan bill into law to erect them.

The House passed the bill last month in a 349 to 63 vote, sending it to Biden's desk, after it cleared the Senate by unanimous consent in December 2021.

The legislation stipulates that the statues should be placed within two years of its enactment, and that priority should be given to a location near the old Supreme Court chamber in the Senate wing of the Capitol.

O'Connor was the first woman to serve on the high court, after President Ronald Reagan nominated her in 1981. She became an influential author of decisions on abortion rights, racial affirmative action, criminal procedures and an array of social issues during her quarter century tenure before retiring in 2006 as her husband's health worsened. She revealed in 2018 that she had been diagnosed with the "beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/justices-ginsburg-and-o-connor-will-get-statues-on-us-capitol-grounds/ar-AAWe6Bo

[Ohio Joe]

1. K & R - nt

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2. Meanwhile, Trumpelthinskin Will Get A Statue...

...at the National Zoo Aviary.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. With a nice layer of pigeon shit

[Joinfortmill]

4. Lol

[niyad]

5. She also was one of the SCOTUS votes that gave us chimpy.

[gratuitous]

6. Yup, her statue should be holding the Bush v. Gore opinion

That decision only broke three or four precedents, but like breaking eggs to make an omelet, sometimes you gotta ignore the law and previous decisions to reverse engineer the desired outcome.

[DemSigns]

9. Then she resigned

Then she resigned to take care of her husband who died shortly thereafter giving Shrub another SC pick. She changed the course of history in too many ways so I lay much of the blame of the mess we are in on her.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. These two SCOTUS pioneers need to be honored

[Celerity]

8. How Sandra Day O'Connor's Swing Vote Decided the 2000 Election

Bush v. Gore was no ordinary lawsuit and it was the vote cast by the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice that would decide the outcome.

https://www.history.com/news/sandra-day-oconnor-swing-vote-bush-gore-election