Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

Even as President Trump readied a potential replacement, Ginsburg’s family, friends, former clerks and colleagues honored her with a last goodbye.

Ginsburg, 87, died late Friday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Virtually nothing motivates liberals and conservatives in America’s culture wars more than a Supreme Court vacancy, particularly in an election year.

The ruling carries political as well as legal and constitutional implications for the president and Congress.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance called the ruling a “tremendous victory” and emphasized he will follow the law and the facts “wherever they may lead.”

The 65-year-old Roberts, the nation’s 17th chief justice, has had a history of occasional seizures going back to 1993.

The court did not require states to fund religious education, ruling only that programs cannot favor private secular schools over religious ones.

More abortion cases are headed the high court’s way as both sides focus on upholding or overruling the 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide.