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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, to lie in repose

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The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more than two decades, will lie in repose in the court's Great Hall on Monday.

O’Connor, an Arizona native, died Dec. 1 at age 93.

Her casket will be carried up the steps in front of the court, passing under the iconic words engraved

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