WASHINGTON -- The remaining eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the president, other government officials and the public convened at the high court on Friday to say goodbye to the late Justice Antonin Scalia .

As law clerks present and past for the late justice stood watch by his casket in the center of the Great Hall, the public walked by it somberly. Some stood prayerfully and made the sign of the cross. Others snapped pictures on their smartphones -- of the casket and the ornate surroundings. Marble busts of prior chief justices looked on from the left and the right.