Palo Alto Flags Lowered In Honor Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PALO ALTO, CA—The flag outside Palo Alto City Hall, the municipal service center, and all city buildings and fire stations are being flown at half-staff in commemoration of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died at the age of 87 from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer.

City officials made the announcement Monday.

Ginsburg was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and was only the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Sandra Day O’Conner.

Ginsburg’s casket will be on public view Wednesday and Thursday under the portico at the top of the court's iconic steps in front of the building.

Public viewing is expected to last from 11 a.m. EDT to 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday and 9 a.m. EDT to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday, the court said. Congress made similar arrangements for a public viewing outside the Capitol after the death of Rep. John Lewis in July.

A private ceremony will take place at the court on Wednesday morning for the justices, Ginsburg's family and friends.

In addition, Ginsburg's body also will lie in state Friday in Statuary Hall at the Capitol and a private ceremony will be held there, too, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who also was president, is the only other justice to be accorded the honor of lying in state at the Capitol, according to the House website. Taft died in 1930, shortly after work began on the site where the Supreme Court would open in 1935.

Ginsburg will be buried next week at Arlington National Cemetery, beside her husband Martin, in a private service.

AP News contributed to this report.