President Joe Biden signed off on Capitol statues honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor, the first two women to serve on the Supreme Court.
The bill he approved Wednesday directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, which oversees art on the Capitol complex, to have the statues located near the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the Capitol and to consider selecting an artist from “underrepresented demographic groups” to make the statues.
“Today, President Biden signed my bipartisan bill celebrating the trailblazing lives of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor with statues in the Capitol,” Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the bill’s author, wrote on social media. “A permanent reminder of how they opened doors for women at a time when so many insisted on keeping them shut.”
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Today, President Biden signed my bipartisan bill celebrating the trailblazing lives of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor with statues in the Capitol. A permanent reminder of how they opened doors for women at a time when so many insisted on keeping them shut.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) April 13, 2022
The bill passed the Senate in December 2021 and passed the House of Representatives on March 28 in a 349-63 bipartisan vote.
O’Connor became the first female associate justice to serve on the Supreme Court in 1981, nominated by former President Ronald Reagan. She sat on the court until she retired in 2006 to care for her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Ginsburg, hailed as a champion of women’s rights and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court, was nominated by former President Bill Clinton in 1993 and served until her death in 2020.
