The Memorial Ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is underway in u. S. Statuary hall. Were going to hear shortly from the speaker of the house, and has noted, Justice Ginsburg is making history even in death because she is the first woman to lie in state, a trailblazer in so many ways. And as jan crawford has reported, this is so rare even for a Supreme Court justice to lie in state. She is the second justice ever following only chief Justice William taft who of course was president before he became chief justice. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. It is with profound sorrow and deep sympathy to the ginsburg family that i have the high honor to welcome Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg to lie in state in the capitol of the United States. She does so on the built for abraham lincoln. May she rest in peace. Ladies and gentlemen, ms. Denyce graves, accompanied by ms. Laura ward. Deep river my home is over jordon deep river, lord, i want to cross over into campground oh, dont you want to go to that gospel feast that Promised Land where all is peace de cross over into campground ladies and gentlemen, rabbi lauren holtzblatt. Madame speaker, Vice President biden, senator harris, and to all of our leaders who are gathered today, thank you. Psalms 118 verse 5. From the narrow straits i call out to you, you, god, answered me with expanse. In the chambers of Justice Ginsburg hangs a framed piece of art that reads justice, justice, you must pursue. A command in the 16th chapter of dueteronomy. Assigns meaning to every single word in the torah, so there must be a reason why justice is written twice. The repetition here teaches even ezra, a medieval rabbi, that time and time again all of the case of your life you must pursue justice. This was how Justice Ginsburg lived her life. Justice did not arrive like a lightning bolt but rather through dogged persistence all the days of her life. Real change, she said, enduring change happens one step at a time. She faced many obstacles in her life even from a young age, though chosen as the valedictorian of her high school class, she gave no graduation speech. Instead she grieved at home with her father after burying her beloved mother one day before graduation. Her family had already suffered terrible loss with the death of her sister when Justice Ginsburg was only 14 months old, but Justice Ginsburg kept rising. A full scholarship to Cornell University and only one of nine women in her Harvard Law School class. After transferring to columbia law school, she graduated first in her class, yet she could not find a job. No firm in new york would hire her because she was a woman. These obstacles didnt deter her. She pressed on. As she sat in an interview with her dear friend nina totenberg, and i quote, i get out of law school with top grades, no law firm in the city of new york will hire me. I end up teaching. That gave me time to devote to the movement of evening out the rights excuse me of women and men. I was nominated to a vacancy on the d. C. Circuit. Justice oconnor once said to me, suppose we had come of age in a time when women lawyers were welcome at the bar. You know what . Today we would have been retired partners from some large law firm, but because the route was not open to us, we had to find another way, and both end up on the United StatesSupreme Court. All the days of her life she pursued justice even in illness. She fought five bouts with cancer, and she supported her beloved marty through his battle with cancer as well. Each time she pressed forward. She returned to work, to the bench, to the court with focus each and every time. Nothing was given. Pursuing justice took resilience, persistence, a commitment to never stop. As a lawyer, she won equality for women and men, not in one swift victory but brick by brick, case by case through meticulous, careful lawyering. She changed the course of american law, and even when her views did not prevail, she still fought. In recent years Justice Ginsburg became famous for her dissents. Despair was not an option. She said, and i quote, dissents speak to a future age. Its not simply to say my colleagues are wrong and i would do it this way, but the greatest dissents do become Court Opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view so that the dissenters hope that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. Justice ginsburgs dissents were not cries of defeat. They were blueprints for the future. Justice ginsburg loved her family. Her grandchildren. Her dear friends, her colleagues, and her court family. We all send our love to you, and Justice Ginsburg also loved the court to which she so devoted her life, a court for all of us. It was Justice Ginsburgs tenacious hope to preserve the integrity of the court. Today she makes history again as the first woman and the first jewish woman to lie in state. Today we stand in sorrow, and tomorrow we the people must carry on Justice Ginsburgs legacy, even as our hearts are breaking, we must rise with her strength and move forward. She was our prophet, our north star, our strength for so very long. Now she must be permitted to rest after toiling so hard for every single wuone of us. May the memory of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg forever and ever be a blessing. God give us the strength and bless us with the courage, the intelligence, the bravery, and the unbreakable resolve to pursue justice. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, ms. Denyce graves, accompanied by ms. Laura ward. All those weve been given by those who came before the dream of a nation where freedom would endure the work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day what will be our legacy, what will our children say let them say of me, i was one who believed in sharing the blessin blessings ive received let me know in my heart when my days are through, america, america, i gave my best to you each generation from the plains to distant shore with the gifts they were given were determined to leave more valiant battles fought together, acts of conscience fought alone these are the seeds from which america has grown let them say of me, i was one who believed in sharing the blessings ive received let me know in my heart when my days are through, america, america, i gave my best to you for those who think they have nothing to share who fear in their hearts there is no hero there know each quiet act of dignity is that which fortifies the soul of a nation that never, never dies never dies, let them say of me i was one who believed in sharing the blessings ive received let me know in my heart when my days are through, america, america, america, america i gave my best to you ladies and gentlemen, please remain at your seats until escorted to pay your respects by the sergeants at arms staff. Now the family of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg paying their r respects. That was her daughter Jane Ginsburg and extended family members. Surrounding the casket. She will be laid to rest at Arlington National cemetery. Next to her beloved husband Marty Ginsburg. And jan, maybe this is a good time to talk about that deep love between her and her husband of 56 years. 56 years. You know, and they just had this kind of i mean, their marriage was he was her rock and literally as she would talk about saved her life, literally, when he noticed in one of her hospital stays that she was being given the wrong dose of medicine and ripped out the tubes. So you know, she credits Marty Ginsburg with so much of what she was able to do in her life and at the Supreme Court, but she also liked to tell the story about she also thinks he saved her life. He they met, of course, at Harvard Law School. She said he was the first man who respected her for her brains, but as an author wrote this week, that was humble brag because hbg was a knockout. Right. And he was a brilliant lawyer himself. They had this wonderful friendship with the scalias, which i, you know, find so touching, especially now when we seem so divided, but Marty Ginsburg was a fantastic cook, and so he and marine ska rcalis Justice Scalias wife would do the cooking. They would have dinners together, celebrate new years eve together, Great Adventures as a couple, and of course her friendship with Justice Scalia goes back to their days serving on the federal Appeals Court here in d. C. One of Justice Scalias sons wrote a tribute to Justice Ginsburg today about the many new years eves that the family spent together where the Marty Ginsburg and mrs. Scalia would cook up the wild boor that Justice Scalia killed on a hunting trip. They were the best of buddies. And i wonder if that was something that you saw i mean obviously the loss of a colleague is affecting these justices so deeply and sharply. She was beloved at the Supreme Court, but is this perhaps what does this mean for the court . Will the justices even have these kind of friendships with scalia and ginsburg now gone, the nation so divided. How do we put aside differences and bridge that gap like they did . She said in an interview she hoped we would come in her lifetime we would go back to a time when people could be friends with those that they may have sharp disagreement with on other issues. Were not there. Jeffrey rosen is still with us, and im going to turn to him in a moment to talk once again about Justice Ginsburgs legal legacy, but jim, one other note because Justice Ginsburg passed at the age of 87 after as the rabbi said today battling cancer five times. I mean, indom itable. She never stopped walking. At one point when she was being treated in the hospital she listened to those arguments with her law books around her from her hospital room by telephone. Justice oconnor, the first justice and Justice Ginsburg has talked about this gave her advice. She went to Justice Oconnor about how to keep working after being treated for cancer. Justice ginsburg had Breast Cancer surgery and was back on the bench. Justice oconnor had Breast Cancer surgery and was back on the bench nine days later. She advised her, have your chemotherapy on friday. That way youll have the weekend to get over it so, you know, you can be back at work on monday. I think that shows how she never ever was going to give anyone a chance to say that she wouldnt do the job, whether she was a woman, jewish, a mother, as she famously said initially three strikes against her. Even with her illness, she just pushed through everything, a fighter at every level. Never, never giving up. I mean, this incredible spirit and on that note, jeffrey rosen, it was not only her own personal battles with cancer but in many ways her approach to the law as we just heard from the rabbi. As a lawyer she won equality for women and men, not in one swift victory but brick by brick, case by case through meticulous careful lawyering she changed the course of american law and, jeffrey, only because its one i looked at where she wrote the brief, the brief in that, jeffrey, that was the first time that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment prohibited differential treatment based on sex. How much of that was a landmark decision . It was indeed a landmark decision. Youre so right to call that out, nora because that was the case that Justice Ginsburg said was the turning point. It was the first time that you say the court stuck down gender based discrimination. Justice ginsburg liked to tell the story about how it was a young boy, richard reed who killed himself because his parents were having a custody disspu dispute. The law at the time preferred min to women, and Justice Ginsburg wrote the brief paying homage to the women before her. As a result of that decision Congress Went through the u. S. Code and removed gender discriminations and judge ginsburg went on to persuade the Supreme Court to make gender discrimination it was a perfect example of what youve properly called her changing the law brick by brick, step by step to create a more embracive constitution. There are so many of these. My own personal regret not going to law school because so many of these decisions even before she was on the Supreme Court that she played a hand in that have slowly changed the course of history and equality for women and yet for those legal scholars know there is still an incredible challenges still ahead. Well, you know, when you think about the Supreme Court and the law, its not i mean, its been said its not a speedboat. It doesnt turn sharply. The law doesnt change that quickly. Its more like trying to move like a super tanker. It takes patience and foresight to know how to turn that, and that was how she, as you were saying, the brick by brick, it requires enormous discipline, patience, and vision, and she had all of those coupled with this incredible technical gift with her precision of language as her law clerk said she would whack out all the extra words. That makes her arguments even more powerful. Thinking about her perseverance, her brilliance, her strategic thinking. The vision. The vision in order to do that. And patience. You know, it requires a discipline of patience to know that this is a step by step process and that you will get to the end in victory. This has been an incredible mot moment of history to watch this entire week, and jan crawford, thank you. Thank you. For being here and sharing with us your Incredible Knowledge of the history since youve covered Justice Ginsburg for decades. It is a loss for so many and for this country and a moment for all of us to learn about the great importance of the highest court on our land, the Supreme Court where many of the justices chosen serve for decades and do, in fact, change every aspect of our lives. Our coverage will continue on our 24 hour streaming network cbsn. You can watch it at cbsnews. Com. There will be more to come on your local station and a full wrap up tonight on the cbs evening news. Some of you will return now to cbs this morning. This has been a cbs news special report. Im norah odonnell, cbs news, washington. I surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams of equal citizenship alive. If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. 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