Ginsburg lay in state at the United States Capitol on September 25; she is both the first Jewish person and the first woman to be thus honored. Ginsburg is the second justice to be honored in this way, the first being Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who had been the 27th president before being appointed to the court. Aside from lying in state, only one woman in history, civil rights movement leader Rosa Parks, had lain in honor at the US Capitol, in 2005 — a distinction given to private citizens, as opposed to government officials like Justice Ginsburg. That morning, Ginsburg's casket was placed in a hearse that transported it from the Supreme Court Building across the street to the Capitol. The hearse briefly paused before the Supreme Court before proceeding to the entrance of the Capitol.
