WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts will supply eulogies on Tuesday on the funeral of the pioneering late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
As the primary girl to serve on the Supreme Court docket, O’Connor was a real trailblazer. She additionally performed a key position for years as a average on the conservative court docket.
O’Connor died Dec. 1 on the age of 93.
The funeral service will happen at Washington Nationwide Cathedral, the situation of many comparable occasions that includes outstanding figures, starting at 11 a.m. ET.
O’Connor usually attended companies on the cathedral and served on its governing board.
Jay O’Connor, one of many late justice’s three sons, may also converse, as will her biographer Evan Thomas.
O’Connor lay in repose on the Supreme Court docket on Monday, with members of the general public capable of pay their respects. A quick ceremony was held within the morning, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor describing O’Connor as a “life position mannequin.”
After being appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, O’Connor was for a few years earlier than her retirement in 2006 an important swing vote on the then-closely divided court docket, typically casting the deciding vote in probably the most contentious circumstances.
The court docket’s shift additional rightward lately has led to her legacy being unwound, because the 6-3 conservative majority has overturned a few of the average rulings she helped craft, together with a 1992 choice that upheld the precise to abortion.