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US President Donald Trump will go to the Supreme Court on Thursday to pay his respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The deputy president secretary Judd Deere informed ABC News on Wednesday and said, “The president will pay his respects to the late justice at the US Supreme Court where she will be lying in repose”. The announcement came after Trump stoked public anger by rejecting reports from Justice Ginsburg’s family that her dying wish was that her replacement is appointed by the next US President. President Trump delivered his words with Fox News on Monday morning when asked about the late justice’s final wish that was dictated to her granddaughter.

President Trump said, “I don’t know that she said that, or was that written out by Adam Schiff and Chuck Schumer and Pelosi? I would be more inclined to the second”. Justice Ginsburg said just days before she died of complications resulting from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. She said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed”. Point to be noted that the court is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. A private memorial service was underway on Wednesday morning with the justice’s former colleagues, family, and close friends in attendance. People will then be able to pass by the casket of the leader of the court’s liberal bloc and feminist icon who died last week.

Some of Justice Ginsburg’s former clerks served as pallbearers when the casket arrived at the court on Wednesday morning. More than 100 other people stood socially-distanced on the steps of the building. It is noteworthy that Justice Ginsburg will lie in repose on Wednesday and Thursday at the court, before moving to the US Capitol to lie in state on Friday. President Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy on Saturday at 5 pm. The Senate Republicans have corralled the essential votes to approve the nomination, in spite of hopes from Democrats that some senators would abide by the 2016 McConnell rule of not moving ahead with Supreme Court appointments in an election year.