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NC Flags Lowered In Honor Of Justice Ginsburg

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published September 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM EDT
People gather under a mural of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the U Street neighborhood in Washington, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, after the announcement that Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Gov. Roy Cooper marked the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with words commemorating her history of legal accomplishments. 

Cooper called Ginsburg a pioneer for women's rights who insisted on fair treatment for all. He urged the court to continue her legacy of justice and fairness.

Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C. Friday. She was 87.

Cooper has ordered state flags to be flown at half-staff in a show of respect to Ginsburg.

It follows a similar proclamation for U.S. flags signed by President Donald Trump. The measure orders American flags on public and military grounds at home and abroad to fly at half-staff until sunset on the day of Ginsburg's interment.
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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