With candles, flowers and signs, mourners honour Ruth Ginsburg on US Supreme Court steps
A trailblazing women’s rights lawyer before she joined the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg emerged as an unlikely pop icon in recent years
19 September 2020 - 08:43
On a cool night in a heated political year in Washington, several hundred people clutching candles, flowers and signs quietly gathered on the steps of the US Supreme Court to mark the death of liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A little before midnight, a woman sang the mourners’ Kaddish, a traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year...
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