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 justice’s legacy both on and off the bench.
“Now 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,” 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.
Ginsburg’s granddaughter, Clara Spera, called the stamp “particularly special,” among the tributes to her grandmother.
“Of 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,” Spera said.
“Indeed, stamps played a large role in my grandmother’s life from long before she ever sat on a federal bench,” 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.
“The 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,” Martinez said, who added the country needs more of Ginsburg’s spirits amid sharpening divisions.
“And as we Americans use her forever stamp, let us hope forever remember what binds us together as a nation,” he continued.
Pointing out USPS receives thousands of suggestions each year for new subjects, Martinez said the postal service is “proud” 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 “the way the world is for American women,” 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.
There were multiple calls from legislators with big promises to codify it.
So... nothing again. Not one source
https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/obama-freedom-of-choice-act-not-highest-legislative-priority/
You realize that article describes how Obama re-iterated his pro-choice stance when asked if he would sign FOCA, right? What did you expect him to do? Magically declare RvW into law using his Executive branch wand?
If you're hung up on the URL, I can think of one little thing congress might've been distracted by with their 72 days of supermajority.
FOCA had already been drafted by Barbara Lee and referred to committee where democrats sent it to die. They never even brought it up for a vote when they held that supermajority. Talk is cheap, and that's all they are.
From the time Obama was swore in until the ACA was passed they managed to find the time to pass 161 other laws, mostly useless trivial bullshit.