The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be honored with a new US postage stamp due out next year.
Ginsburg, a longtime liberal member of the high court who died at age 87 in 2020, will be featured on a forever stamp that shows an oil painting of her “facing the viewer in her black judicial robe with an intricate white collar,”
said in a statement. Such collars came to be an iconic part of the late justice’s wardrobe. “After beginning her career as an activist lawyer fighting gender discrimination, Justice Ginsburg became a respected jurist whose important majority opinions advancing equality and strong dissents on socially controversial rulings made her a passionate proponent of equal justice and an icon of American culture,” the statement said.
has not announced when the stamp will be released next year, and a number of other stamps were unveiled on Monday along with Ginsburg’s. Forever stamps currently cost 60 cents. Other justices have been featured on stamps in the past, including the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American member of the Supreme Court.