The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) unveiled a stamp honoring late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday, where former colleagues, family and friends gathered to celebrate the justiceās legacy both on and off the bench.
āNow a new stamp will honor this outstanding American eminent jurist who gave so much to our country as a scholar, teacher, lawyer, judge and justice,ā Supreme Court Justice John Roberts said in opening remarks at the National Portrait Gallery.
The stamp features an oil painting of Ginsburg wearing her black judicial robe and white collar. Postal Service art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp with art by Michael J. Deas, which was based on a photograph by Philip Bermingham.
Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 in 2020 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She served on the Supreme Court for 27 years.
Ginsburgās granddaughter, Clara Spera, called the stamp āparticularly special,ā among the tributes to her grandmother.
āOf the many honors my grandmother has received, this stamp is especially fitting and not only because the Supreme Court has had occasion to interpret the postal clause found in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution,ā Spera said.
āIndeed, stamps played a large role in my grandmotherās life from long before she ever sat on a federal bench,ā she continued, telling stories of Ginsburg as a mother and grandmother.
Roman Martinez IV, the chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, said the stamp honors not only Ginsburg, but in effect, the Supreme Court as well.
āThe one particular thing that I admire was her ability to persevere, her ability to fight for what she believed in, but to do it so in a civil way,ā Martinez said, who added the country needs more of Ginsburgās spirits amid sharpening divisions.
āAnd as we Americans use her forever stamp, let us hope forever remember what binds us together as a nation,ā he continued.
Pointing out USPS receives thousands of suggestions each year for new subjects, Martinez said the postal service is āproudā to be issuing a stamp in her honor. Out of the 103 Supreme Court justices who have passed away, only 14, now including Ginsburg, have been on a stamp.
Nina Totenberg, an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, said she interviewed Ginsburg dozens of times throughout the years. She remembered Ginsburg for changing āthe way the world is for American women,ā while sharing stories of their exchanges.
The first-class Forever stamp will be sold in panes of 20, according to the service. Each stamp costs 66 cents.
I mean it would have been redundant up until the court decided that settled law didnāt actually matter. When they had a supermajority row vs wade was a constitutionally protected right, there was no reason to spend the political capital on āsettled lawā.
Then why did Dems promise year after year to codify it into law if it was settled? And why did numerous Dem legislators draft bills codifying it into law that got referred to committee where it was sent to die if it was settled?
https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/obama-freedom-of-choice-act-not-highest-legislative-priority/
More than likely fund raising? Or it could be that pretty much every American politician is a professional liar whoās only real job is to lubricate the human crushing machine that is capitalismā¦
Idk, pick your poison.
Find raising was the sole reason they did nothing, they sold women out to raise money
Well yeah, theyāre ghoulsā¦ of course theyād rather spend their political capital protecting business interest than use it to protect women.
I wasnāt defending Congress in my statement about the redundancy of passing an actual law, I was just explaining their reasonings. Why pass a policy when itās already āsettled lawā. If their opposition is obsessed enough to delegitimize the judicial concept of binding precedentsā¦well weāll just fund raise off that.
Itās kinda brilliant if youāre a conservative or liberal, you donāt even have to pretend to be progressive anymore. America is so shrouded in conservative ideology that āprogressivesā are now people who fight to reestablish the status quo of 10 years ago.