FILE - In this July 24, 2013, file photo Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for a photo in her chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, before an interview with the Associated Press. Ginsburg will officiate at a same-sex wedding this weekend in what is believed to be a first for a member of the nation’s highest court. Ginsburg will officiate Saturday, aug. 31, 2013, at the marriage of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a government economist. Kaiser told The Associated Press he asked Ginsburg to officiate because she is a longtime friend. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will preside over a same-sex wedding on Saturday in what is believed to be a first for a member of the Supreme Court. Ms. Justice Ginsburg will officiate at the marriage of Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, and John Roberts, an economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Ms. Justice Ginsburg agreed to officiate after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June that struck down the Defence of Marriage Act, which the majority said stigmatised same-sex unions. She voted with the majority in the five-to-4 decision.
