Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has received a fitting tribute — a tombstone engraved with the traditional seal of the nation’s highest court — ahead of the one-year anniversary of her death.
According to Jewish tradition, Ginsburg’s headstone would have been officially unveiled by her first yahrzeit, or the anniversary of her death, which is Monday.
The tombstone features the US Supreme Court seal with a single star beneath an eagle’s claws — symbolizing the US Constitution’s creation of “one Supreme Court.”
Below on her gravestone, Ginsburg is remembered as an associate justice who served on the bench of the highest court from 1993 to her death in September from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.
The gravestones of some other late justices also bear the high court’s historic seal.
In Jewish tradition, it is customary for the unveiling of the tombstone to be sometime between the end of the shiva, or mourning period, and the one-year anniversary.
Ginsburg shares the tombstone with her husband, Martin, who died in 2010 and is buried alongside her in the historic Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia.
Relatives can choose headstones in the couple’s section of the cemetery that differ from the rows of white monuments that mark the graves of military service members.
The couple’s final resting place is not far from where President John F. Kennedy is buried and near the final resting plots of nine Supreme Court justices, including three who served on the bench with Ginsburg: Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justices Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens.
