Postal Service honors the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a stamp

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring the precocious Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arsenic "an icon of American culture" with a stamp successful the caller year.

The design, unveiled connected Monday, is simply a painted representation based connected a photograph of Ginsburg successful a achromatic robe with an intricate achromatic collar, which became her trademark.

"After opening her vocation arsenic an activistic lawyer warring sex discrimination, Justice Ginsburg became a respected jurist whose important bulk opinions advancing equality and beardown dissents connected socially arguable rulings made her a passionate proponent of adjacent justice," the bureau said successful its announcement.

Ginsburg died successful 2020 astatine the property of 87. The recently unveiled first-class "forever" stamp of the wide icon volition beryllium disposable for acquisition successful 2023, though officials did not notation a circumstantial date. A first-class stamp presently costs 60 cents, a terms that volition emergence to 63 cents connected Jan. 22, 2023.