Candles lit next to a portrait of Justice Ginsburg.
A tribute sign among the crowd of mourners. PHOTOS BY MILO HESS
Hundreds hold vigil for Justice
Ginsburg at Foley Square
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Scores of New Yorkers gathered outside
the New York Civil Court House
in Foley Square on Sept. 19 to honor
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth
Generations of New Yorkers
mourned the loss of
Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a
vigil outside Foley Square
on Sept. 19, 2020.
Bader Ginsburg just 24 hours
after her death.
The candlelight vigil brought
out those who honored the
Brooklyn native who served on
the highest court in the nation
for the past 27 years and was
a life-long champion of equal
rights.
In her more than a quarter-century on
the Supreme Court, Ginsburg had become
an iconic fi gure among progressive
Americans. Many mourners at Saturday’s
vigil brought with them portraits and pins
bearing the image of the “Notorious RBG”
and signs expressing their admiration and
gratitude for her service.
Many in the crowd also
expressed frustration and anger
at Senate Republicans for
moving forward with President
Trump’s plans to immediately
move a successor to Ginsburg’s
seat forward this close to the
2020 presidential election —
bucking a precedent the Senate
GOP set four years earlier when
they refused President Obama’s
nomination of Judge Merrick
Garland to succeed the late
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia several months ahead of
the 2016 presidential contest.
Sending a message on the mask.
Lighting candles for RBG.
While there was grief over Justice
Ginsburg’s death, many protesters
expressed anger over Senate Republicans’
rush to fill her seat on the Supreme
Court.
4 Sept. 24, 2020 Schneps Media