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... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This Nov. 10, 2007 provided by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shows Michael M. Kaiser, president of Kennedy Center, at the Al-Kasaba theatre and cinematheque in Ramallah, West Bank,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Ginsburg will officiate Saturday at the marriage of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, a government economist. "I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship," Ginsburg told The Washington Post in an interview. "It's very meaningful mostly to have a friend officiate, and then for someone of her stature, it's a very big honor," Kaiser said. The court said the federal government may not refuse to recognize legally married gay couples and reinstated a lower-court ruling that found California’s ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional. The Supreme Court’s decisions in June had no effect on the marriage plans of Kaiser and Roberts because same-sex unions have been legal in the District of Columbia since 2010.
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to make some history tonight: She will become the first Supreme Court justice to preside over a same-sex wedding. Ginsburg will conduct the ceremony of her friend, Kennedy Center chief Michael Kaiser, and his partner, economist John Roberts, reports AP. (Yes, she's heard the jokes about the latter's name.) The wedding will take place in a high-profile locale familiar to the opera-loving justice: the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in DC. “I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship,” Ginsburg tells the Washington Post. She plans to perform another gay wedding next month. The 80-year-old justice also made headlines recently by making clear that she has no plans to retire anytime soon.