12/19/2023

President Biden, Chief Justice Roberts Speak at O’Connor’s funeral

Biden remembered the justice as “gracious and wise, civil and principled”

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, is being memorialized Tuesday in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral, where President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. are among those delivering eulogies. The invitation-only service comes 2.5 weeks after the death of the former justice and a day after the public paid respects as she lay in repose at the Supreme Court.

Biden, who was the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee for O'Connor's nomination, remembered the justice as "gracious and wise, civil and principled."

One needed not agree with all of O'Connor's decisions to recognize that her principles were "deeply held and of the highest order, and that her desire for civility was genuine," Biden said as O'Connor's family smiled and nodded. She "empowered generations of women in every part of American life," he added.

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