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ADVERTISEMENT Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,” Pelosi told Page. “He is an enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on his own.”
Page wrote that Pelosi proposed that Ginsburg lie in state inside the Capitol Rotunda following her death. McConnell rejected the idea on the grounds that there was no precedent for such treatment of a justice. When William Howard Taft had lain in state in 1930, he had been not only the chief justice but also president, McConnell noted, Page writes. He wasn’t swayed by the argument that Ginsburg had achieved an iconic status in American culture, especially for women and girls.
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RBG Was Denied Top Funeral Honors By Mitch McConnell, New Book Reports
After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to honor the liberal hero by allowing her to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
The story is included in
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, a forthcoming book by
USA Today journalist Susan Page.
Page writes that Speaker Pelosi sought to make Ginsburg the first woman to lie in state in the Rotunda.
The website of the Architect of the Capitol says of use of the premises to honor those who have died: No law, written rule, or regulation specifies who may lie in state; use of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda is controlled by concurrent action of the House and Senate. Any person who has rendered distinguished service to the nation may lie in state if the family so wishes and Congress approves.