President Biden on Monday ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-mast on the White House, navy bases and at federal buildings in honor of the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who handed away on Friday on the age of 93.
The flags shall be lowered on the day of her funeral, which has not but been introduced.
“Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was an American icon, the first woman on our nation’s highest court. She spent her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic and in search of common ground,” learn the president’s proclamation. “She knew that for democracy to work, we have to listen to each other, and remember how much more we all have in common as Americans than what keeps us apart.”
The excessive courtroom’s announcement of her loss of life famous that she had “advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s and a respiratory illness.”
The Supreme Court additionally hung black drapes over the courtroom door in remembrance of O’Connor, a practice that dates again 150 years to the loss of life of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. It’s sometimes left in place for 30 days.
In 2018, O’Connor introduced she had been recognized with dementia and would now not be showing in public on account of her situation.
O’Connor was appointed to the courtroom by President Reagan in 1981, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. She was the primary girl to take a seat on the bench, with 5 extra to comply with over the a long time: the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
O’Connor served till 2006, and was a reasonable member of the courtroom. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took her vacated seat.
Her husband, John O’Connor, handed away in 2009. She is survived by her three sons and 6 grandchildren.
