And that was noted for being a remarkably fast confirmation process! Perhaps there was an unspoken need to rid the Court of RBG’s possessions before the conservative majority took up the process of dismantling her legal legacy. It was late September when RBG’s stuff got evicted - that’s weeks before Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination was confirmed on October 26th. The abrupt mandate from Chief Justice John Roberts’ administrative team to clear out Ginsburg’s office and make way for the next justice broke from the common practice of allowing staff sufficient time to move and providing a new justice with temporary quarters if needed while permanent chambers were readied. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Photos AP Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen in her Supreme Court chambers in Washington back. During his final year, Marty was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, requiring grueling radiation treatments. Ruth eventually followed her husband to Harvard Law, where life threw a major obstacle in front of them. Grieving aides to the justice who’d served 27 years and become a cultural icon known as the “Notorious RBG” sorted through the chambers’ contents there. Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her husband, Marty Photo: Annie Groer/The Washington Post via Getty Images. Within days of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s memorial service in late September 2020, boxes of her files and other office possessions were moved down to a dark, windowless theater on the Supreme Court’s ground floor, where – before the ongoing pandemic – tourists could watch a film about court operations.
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